The Girls Of My Life

by Tiberia Silverfang

When a young man is on the verge of finally ending it all after dealing with a tragic home life and an even worse school life, an unlikely group of allies change his life forever in ways no one could ever seen coming. Follow Mike and his new friends as they explore not only new worlds but also each other in the process. OC x Harem of different races, including modded ones.

21. Ch:21 (edited) A promise kept

Darkness, darkness that surrounded an area like a cloak of the starry night sky as sitting by a lone tree in a desolate field was Mike, staring off into the vast void of stars looking towards the constellations with a sigh softly escaping his lips as his mind slowly wondered that was until a familiar voice spoke "Mike…?" The voice had said with a gentle tone making Mike slowly sit up, making his eyes go wide seeing the familiar figure.

The familiar light brown skin, long dark almond brown hair that flowed down the sides of the figures head and down their back, the light blue eyes as they wore a gunsmoke grey hoodie with light black jeans that had holes starting to form in the knees. Mike slowly got up from the tree "A-Angel…? I-Is that really you?" He asked as the figure soon gently nodded as a soft smile slowly formed upon her face with tears starting to fill her eyes "I-It is Mike… I'm so glad you're back!" She had said soon running up to Mike, wrapping her arms around him in a warm hug.

Mike soon felt a warm smile slowly forming upon his face with tears slowly filling his eyes, wrapping his arms around Angel as the tears slowly fell and trailed down his face "Angel… I-It's so good to see you again…" He had mumbled softly soon flinching softly as Angel's grip got a little tighter "Mike… why did you leave me behind…?" She asked in a out of character tone slowly striking fear into Mike's soul.

"I… I didn't mean to leave you behind… I… I was coming back for you… I… I swear…" He said in a shaking tone as his heart beat started to slowly rise while Angel's grip tightened even more, almost like she was trying to crush him as he felt her grip tighten and tighten making him cough as he was getting constricted "W-What's going on…?!" He asked with fear lacing his voice while Angel gave a low, dark laugh.

The laugh struck an even worse fear in Mike as Angel slowly moved back a little, with her grip was still like iron as her head bent backwards in a unnatural way showing her face. Her face had voidless black eyes with what looked to be black sludge leaking from them and down her cheeks, she had a menacing grin with rows and rows of sharp teeth slowly opening it as a long agated tongue slowly hanged out soon grabbing his face with one of her hands "What's wrong…? Not happy to see your best friend…?" She asked in a low, dark tone with her tongue gently dragging across his face.

Mike had felt his fear raising through the roof as he tried to get out of Angel's grip when he started to feel himself sink, soon looking towards the ground to see that he was sinking into the ground, he began to panic as he tried to struggle to get out of the ground and out of Angel's grip, only making him sink into the ground even further as she let go of him with her sickening grin watching him sink into the ground.

Mike was desperately trying to get out of the ground but kept sinking deeper and deeper while Angel watched on with a sickening grin, "Have fun lover boy… Maybe the worms will love to be with you…" She said soon cackling madly as Mike tried desperately trying to get out of the ground soon screaming loudly at the top of his lungs "Someone! Anyone! Help!" He screamed as his vision slowly became crowded with dirt and mud as his vision soon became black nothingness.

The Real World…

Mike had soon shot up from his bed breathing heavily and placing his hand over his chest, trying to calm his breathing down too soon also feel that his armor was missing 'M-Must have been taken off me while I was sleeping… T-That nightmare though…' He thought to himself trying to regain his composure while gripping his shirt tightly, having it in a hard grip feeling the lining of the fabric as he tried to get his breathing back under control.

His breathing slowly came back to him as he let out a sigh, slowly looking around the room to find that everyone was missing soon taking the covers off himself, he slowly crawled out of the bed slowly getting up quickly grabbing the side of the top bunk as his body felt weak slowly shuffling his feet across the ground soon slowly sitting down upon the couch.

Mike slowly looked towards the table to find it was cleaned off, and had nothing upon it 'Moon must have cleaned up her equipment… but also, where is my gear? Did they put it up?' He thought to himself, asking with a questioning look as he began to feel his strength slowly coming back.

He soon dragged himself off the couch and began to wobble towards the door, slowly reaching it as he opened the door wobbling out and slowly slamming against the wall, gently sliding across it as he shuffled across the floor soon beginning to hear voices coming from down the hall.

Mike continued to shuffle across the wall as the voices became a little more clearer "You think he's going to be okay? He looked like he was dealing with something really terrible… like fighting a monster or something..." A voice had said while Mike soon recognized it to be Wave's as another soon spoke up "He should be fine… hopefully with no side effects… the tranquilizer I gave him should have helped him sleep… though his body could feel really sluggish… and I don't know… You think he's having the nightmares again?" She asked while the group simply didn't know how to answer.

In his head Mike began to think 'Tranquilizer? So that's why my body feels so weak… and why I passed out last night…' He thought, soon sighing internally 'I must have been worrying everyone again… I have such a bad habit of doing that…' He scolded himself as he shuffled against the wall while his body started to slowly get back to normal, but was not going to risk himself getting injured because of it slowly feeling his hands across the walls to soon feel a door.

He soon slowly wrapped his hand around the door and pulled himself closer, soon taking a hold of both sides of the door and gently opening them as the doors slowly slid open with Mike nearly falling in but quickly grabbed the door frames, soon slowly looking up to see everyone in the kitchen as a soft smile slowly formed across his face "H-Hey everyone… H-How's your morning?" He asked in a quiet yet weak tone as his muscles were still slowly working again.

The group was wide eyed at this as Remaie and Moon soon quickly brought him in and gently set him in a chair, soon adjusting himself a little in the chair and gently scooting in as most of the group was sitting around the table waiting for Mike to speak while his vocal cords began to feel a little better in his opinion.

"S-So… W-What's up?" He asked in a soft tone, but still loud enough for them to hear as Wave slowly spoke up "N-Nothing… I-It's that the ship will be landing very soon on the planet… W-We were going to wake you… B-But you were… S-Screaming in your sleep…" She had admitted while Mike felt sorry for this, slowly lowering his gaze towards the table as Xeno placed a plate of pancakes in front of him "Here… eat, need to regain your strength." He had said in a calm tone as Mike sluggishly started to eat the breakfast before him, nearly dropping the fork many times.

The group was worried for Mike as they wondered what his mental state was becoming while watching as his grip slowly got better and almost back to normal and continued to eat, Mise had soon spoke "Listen we uh… we put your gear up for now…" He said while Mike continued to eat while Lucy had spoken up after him "W-We thought it would be a good idea, to go there with no weapons or anything." She said as Mike soon stopped eating and gently set the fork down.

"I find that… very understandable, and I understand why you did it." Mike had said to the group with the group easing a little at his words while he slowly lifted his gaze with a soft smile slowly forming upon his face, this brought the group to ease while a voice was heard from the panel "Attention everyone, we shall be landing in just a few minutes.

Please do be on ready to land." The voice had said as the group soon started to get ready as Mike soon finished eating as Xeno soon stopped Mise and Octavia and gently handed them a silver tube "Here, this is bronzer, since I knew you two have gotten your bracelets just yesterday. And I can also tell you have no experience using them yet, don't worry you will learn, but for now please just apply the stuff to your skin to blend in." Xeno explained with the two nodding.

Mike slowly got up from the table soon popping the joints in his body, gently sighing "Ahh… so much fucking better…" He mumbled softly and walking out of the room and back into the living area with most of the group getting ready as Izzy gently tossed Mike his hoodie, soon putting it on with a familiar zip.

The girls soon pulled up their disguises, while Remaie was deciding on hers, Lucy and Silver were trying to figure out how it worked as Stormy looked a little worried on how it worked as Xeno soon pulled up his, his form soon changed to that of caucasian man that looked to be of german descent as his hair was a light brown with light green eyes, still wearing his normal clothes.

"Alright, everyone get your disguises ready, Mike should have no need to do such thing as he used to live on this planet." He had explained as the group nodded while Mise and Octavia walked in applying the bronzer on their skin, as it gave them a tannish look.

Remaie soon activated hers, making her look of asian descent as her skin was tannish, her hair changed to that of a warm black and her eyes were a light, but gentle blue, Stormy breathed in and out a little soon activating hers, as it didn't change much except she had legs instead of her tail with a pair of black boots while she was having some trouble standing up.

Lucy let out a gentle sigh as she used hers next, soon changing her form into a tannish girl with a familiar blond ponytail that was very messy and piercing green eyes as Mike couldn't put his finger on it, soon shrugging as Silver was last of the group as she tried hers on as her form changed into that of Irish descent as her skin was a light tan to it, her hair was a warm autumn red and her eyes had that of two emeralds, while she had what looked to be freckles upon her face.

The group was ready and looking over their disguises while Mise looked towards Silver "I don't know why, but for some reason the specific disguise really speaks to me in a weird way that I oddly enjoy." Mise had said as Silver just gently shrugged while Mike smiled softly.

"Welp… you all look perfect, and would blend right in. Now for the hard part, getting to the school… and getting Angel." He had said with the group nodding as they felt the ship soon gently hit the ground "I guess we have landed, we better get a move on." Xeno had said with the group soon nodding and leaving the room until Octavia stopped Mise and held her hand out towards him, gently flexing her fingers in a 'hand it over' way with a unfaced look upon her face.

"Oh come on! I already left my AR-180 back home, let me keep my pistols." Mise begged as Octavia didn't budge and kept her position as Mise begrudgingly sighed and handed over his pistols, knives, and other contraband. Mike smiled softly at this "Thanks Octavia, as well Mise. Were just getting my friend and her family, not starting an all out war against my old high school."

He had said while Mise just sighed and Octavia smiled and turned to Mike "He drove his tank through the front of one back home, after something like that, I frisk him anywhere we got so don't worry." Octavia said as Mise was going to chime in but decided against it.

Mike nodded a little "You know… I would say, why the hell did he do that, but then again we are going to a school where he would have a damn field day." He had said as Octavia giggled softly and nodded, while Mise soon slipped out from the room with the two following behind.

The group had soon walked out of the ship and into a familiar looking forest while Mike had let out a soft, yet gentle sigh "Home, sweet home… I guess…" He had mumbled softly while Xeno soon spoke up "Mike… Since you know this area very well, I think you should lead us." He explained while Mike nodded.

"Got you… Alright everyone, just please follow me and I will get you to the destinations." Mike had said leading the group through the forest. The group followed behind Mike while looking around as Mise and Octavia felt a little at ease and smiling a little.

"Ya know, aside from the appearance of the people, it's just like being back on our planet, which is both cool and totally trippy at the same time." Mise said looking around and taking in the environment while Mike chuckled softly "That's how we felt, seeing your guys planet… though it felt so familiar… and I don't know how." He said thinking.

While Mike was thinking the group continued to walk along, soon walking upon a path and out of the forest when their gaze fell upon the large town as Lucy soon whistled softly "It's like back home." She had said while the group soon nodded a little as Octavia spoke up after her "Yeah, but you know what we have but you don't and how that makes you very lucky?" Octavia asked as the group was confused while Mise spoke up.

"I'm gonna take a crack and say Treble, Gaige, Pinkie, Vinyl, Hazel, and literally every crazy person we left behind?" Mise asked knowingly as Octavia giggled and nodded "Exactly, but that's a bridge we'll cross later, for now let's focus on the task at hand" She had said while the group nodded.

The group started to descend upon the town walking past different kinds of buildings, staring in awe while Mike gently sighed 'I can't believe it's been almost four to five months since I left here…. It feels all so… alien to me…' Mike thought to himself while passing different pedestrians along the streets of Littleton.

The girls looked towards Mike who was being unnervingly quiet as Silver slowly turned to the rest of the group "So… uh… does anyone have the time?" She asked, trying to start conversation as Mise pulled his phone out and checked it "It's about...5pm, so around dinner time for most." Mise said putting his phone away.

This was fairly odd as the group looked towards the sky to see that it was a very muggy day, but turning to a billboard to see it flash in red lettering that it was almost ten in the morning "I think you got the wrong time there Mise, cause it says almost ten over there." Moon had said pointing to the billboard as Izzy soon spoke up "Have you been having too much bubbly juice?" She asked while Mise looked towards her and shrugged a little while Wave spoke up "She's asking if you had any alcohol." Wave asked while Mise began to think.

"Uhh, I had a little but I actually cut down on drinking since I took up smoking weed, or what you would call catnip." Mise said as the girls nodded knowingly. Stormy smiled softly as she was leaning against Xeno as she walked "That's actually a very large industry on several planets, and it's also very good for medical reasons."

She said as Remaie reached into her jacket and pulled out a small baggie with several rolled cigarettes "Good news is I always come prepared." She had said with a soft smile making Mise chuckle "Girl, you just became one of my new favorite people."

Mise said with a smile, while the group snickered softly. The group soon came down a hill as on the horizon was a fairly large high school with a metal sign in the front with the picture of a charging mustang, the girls and Mike knew of this pace as Mike sighed softly "It's now… or never…"

He had mumbled quietly under his breath walking down the hill as the group followed closely behind walking down the sidewalks and past a fairly familiar crimson stains upon the pavement as this made most of the group stop with Silver speaking up "I-Is that…?" She tried to ask while Wave, Moon, Izzy, Crystal and Mike slowly nodded.

This made the group put the place they were heading into, into perspective while Mise gently gripped Mike's shoulder "The level of relation I feel right now is off the charts, we're gonna get her out of here, and take her far away where she'll be safe." Mise said as he walked alongside Mike while Octavia grouped up with the girls turning their gazes towards the school, slowly walking towards the doors of the main entrance.

The group soon reached the front doors as Mike gently brushed his fingers against the familiar glass doors, soon slowly bringing his hand towards the metal handle of the door and gave it a good pull, bringing it open for the group as they began to walk in as Mike followed in from behind.

The familiar sounds of voices around the halls had filled Mike with dread as the group walked across the large walkway above the library, where they could faintly see it through the glass but continued to move soon slowly coming to a stop at the foot of the stairs where it split down the middle giving clear view to all the students who had early lunch.

Mike slowly scanned across the very large commons area as Octavia soon spoke up in a gentle tone, trying to keep everyone at ease "Ok, it's just high school, worse comes to worse...we knock them out and Mise will hide the bodies because that's kind of his specialty. Mike, what does Angel look like?" Octavia said as Mise nodded with vision of punching teenagers in the face danced in his head.

Mike's gaze soon fell upon a certain girl that had familiar light brown skin, long dark almond brown hair that flowed down the sides of the girls head and down her back, the light blue eyes as she wore a gunsmoke grey hoodie with light black jeans that had holes starting to form in the knees, who was walking with a tray with some food on it.

He felt his heart starting to skip a beat softly as Octavia was trying to gain his attention, gently waving her hand in front of his face "Mike...hello? Unless you're telepathic, you can't do anything from this far away." Octavia said as Mike soon snapped out of his thoughts "S-Sorry Octavia… J-Just… thinking is all…" He said soon walking down the stairs much to the groups disagreement to it.

The group soon sighed and followed after Mike but not to far away, giving him enough space to do what he needed to do, over with Angel she gently sat down at one of the empty tables as she sighed softly slowly taking out a notebook she had used to contained notes soon gently opening it as on one page had a drawing she looked to have worked on some time back.

It contained was a large heart that had an arrow through it with hers and Mike's name in it, this brought a familiar sting to her eyes as they filled with tears 'I… I can't believe he's actually gone… I-It's only been five months but… I… I still wish he never left…' She thought sadly to herself, soon laying her head on her notepad let the tears softly fall down her face and upon the paper, softly crying into the notepad as she felt a hand gently place against her shoulder softly sniffling "F-Fuck off Butch… I… I don't have time for your shit…" She had said, until the voice soon spoke up as her eyes went wide.

"Is that how you greet an old friend?" The voice asked, as Angel's eyes went wide 'I-It can't be…' She thought to herself, slowly turning to see with a soft smile upon their face stood was Mike "M-Mike…?" She asked in a soft tone while he nodded and chuckled softly "That's my name, don't wear it out." He said as Angel giggled softly, soon getting pulled into a warm hug as she gently wrapped her arms around him and burying her face into his chest, gently crying.

Mike had then gently petted Angel's head, slowly and gently running his fingers through her hair as not far from the two was the group smiled softly at the scene while Mise gently took Octavia's hand, gently intertwining their fingers together as he gently whispered to her "Reminds me of the first day of our relationship, so many moons ago…."

Mise whispered quietly as Octavia smiled warmly and laid her head on his "Mhmm, you were a roll of firecrackers and I was a boxes of matches." She said as the memories flowed through their heads and watched the scene.

Angel soon slowly stopped crying as she sniffled softly, slowly looking towards Mike with a soft smile upon her face "I… I can't believe you're back… I-If this is a dream… I… I don't ever want to wake up…" She had said, sniffling softly as soft smile formed upon Mike's face.

"It's not a dream, and I am glad to be back… but like I promised or Pinkie promised, I am getting you and your family out of here." He had said as Angel looked a little uneasy, but something in the sentence caught Mise and Octavia's attention. "W-Where are we going?" She asked as Mike smiled softly "Somewhere better, somewhere… Safe, from all of this." He said while Angel slowly nodded, still keeping her hold on Mike as Mike turned to the group.

"Guys… we need to move soon, we need to get out of her bef-" He said soon getting cut off as a familiar voice spoke up "Well, well… if it isn't the ugly little neighborhood furry, finally returning from the forest after finding that no animal wants to be with you?" The voice had said as Mike and Angel gently shook at hearing the voice.

"B-Butch…" Mike had mumbled softly as Angel tightened her grip on Mike. The group turned to see the person known as Butch, but also had a good sized group of people with him as it had a familiar woman, known as Kimberly as Mise softly whispered to the group.

"Are these the people I get to kill? Because his skull is perfect for a drinking goblet." Mise asked with a hint of excitement in his voice while Octavia slapped him upside the head while the girls shook their heads "We came here to get Angel and her family, not start an all out war." Wave had whispered at Mise while Moon gently reached into her bag and pulled out a small glass vial with what looked to be white powder and small rag in it.

"If all else fails, I got this smoke bomb from Vei before we left." She whispered to the group as Octavia sighed softly. "The girls are right, Mise you go...somewhere, if we really and truly are facing bodily harm danger, we'll signal you, for now you're just a liability."

Octavia said as Mise scrunched his face and took the hint, stepping off to the side, while this was going on Mike slowly and gently pulled Angel behind him "It's good to see you too, Butch… how is your head doing? Did you gain any brain cells when the book collided with your head?" Mike asked as Butch felt his anger starting to rise.

The group watched on not sure to intervene or not as Mike kept Angel behind him, as she was worried of what he was doing when Kimberly soon spoke up "Oh what's the matter? Afraid we'll hurt your little slut of a girlfriend there?" She said in a mocking tone as Mike gently placed a hand over his heart.

"Now Kimberly, that hurts almost like a knife… A knife that pierced my skin and never left…" He had said in a slightly dark tone. Mike slowly turned to Angel "Angel, please listen to me. I need you to go over there to my friends, okay? I will be fine, don't worry." He had insisted while Angel slowly nodded and walked over to the group as Mike turned back to the others.

"You know… There is many things you should never make fun of… Family, friends… it ain't a smart idea…" He had said as Butch chuckled at this "Really now? So you saying we're all fucking stupid huh? You think that after leaving for fucking four months you're the tough man now? Well news flash fuck wit, you ain't you're just the little bug we have to deal with all the time and you are never going to leave that spot." Butch spat at Mike as he didn't even flinch at his words as Kimberly giggled with a sinister looking grin. "You know, maybe this new tough guy you is better than it looks, I think I could have some fun playing with my new you, just like freshman year…." She said in sultry tone.

Angel and Moon's eyes went wide hearing these words as they looked unwell and uneasy, while Mike stood his ground towards the group as Mise saw the two like this and whispered "Mike, you sir are one tough bastard, god I want to peel the skin from their skulls like a bag of oranges…."

Mise said in anger while Mike kept his ground as Butch turned to Kimberly "I still can't believe you care about this bug, I don't get why you like him that much… he's a goddamn freak. And his new tough guy act, it ain't sitting right with me he's acting more of a freak then normal." He had said as Kimberly brushed him off.

She walked up to Mike and gently wrapped her arms around his neck with her smile still upon her face, soon looking into his eyes "I don't care, I think it makes him even more alluring…" She had said in her sultry tone, giggling like a schoolgirl that had gotten a prize at the state fair as the group physically felt unwell at this while the girls looked ready to rip someone a new one, as Octavia could hear Angel silently growling making her think.

'This I reaching a boiling point super rapidly...we need to do something fast…' Octavia said in her head. Mike looked at Kimberly with dead eyes, soon slowly reaching his hand up towards hers and gently pulled them off "Sorry… but I am in a relationship… and me and my friends are just leaving…" He had said soon pushing her back soon turning towards his friends and walking towards them as she soon yelled at him.

"Listen here you little fat fucking cunt! No one pushes me and walks away without a broken bone!" Kimberly shouted as she tried to lunge towards Mike, but was soon stopped as Mike shot his arm out and grabbed her arm, spinning her around and pinning her to the ground with her arm behind her back making her scream out in pain.

Everyone was surprised and shocked by this as Kimberly continued to scream in pain while Mike spoke "You know… I would never hurt a woman… But in this case… I will just have to make an exception…" He said soon slowly turning to Butch and his group "A eye for an eye… A tooth for a tooth… I'm going to give you all double the amount of pain you have given me…" He had said in a dark tone striking fear into the group as the group started to fear for the worse.

Mike soon started to slowly bend Kimberly's arm in the opposite direction while placing his foot on the bottom part of her arm making her scream worse in pain, The group started to worry even worse as Angel started to shake softly with tears in her eyes as Octavia soon spoke to her, trying to calm her down "Shhh, it's going to be fine, Mike...well, things happened after he left, it's best we explain later but for now let's get you out of here." Octavia said as she signaled Mise to come out.

"Cover us and help Mike if necessary, none of us need to see this, especially not Angel." Octavia said as Mise nodded and acted as a physical cover in case Butch or his goons wanted to prevent the girls from leaving.

Mike continued to bend Kimberly's arm as she continued to scream as he could hear her arm getting ready to break as she had tears in her eyes that fell down her cheeks, with his eyes still giving dead emotion while the group soon turned away and getting ready to leave, until Angel soon broke away from the group running past Mise as he was about to stop her but soon stopped, seeing tears forming in her eyes as she soon wrapped her arms around Mike's back and started to cry into his back.

"M-Mike! D-Don't do this! P-Please! T-This isn't you!" She pleaded into his back making Mike stop for several seconds, time slowly ticked away as Mike slowly came back to his senses gently letting go of Kimberly's arm as she quickly scrambled away with Butch soon picked her back up to her feet "Y-You okay?" He asked as she nodded a little, gently holding her arm.

Mike slowly stood up with thoughts racing through his head, soon slowly turning towards Angel and pulling her into a hug gently cooing to her "I… I'm so sorry… I… I don't know what came over me… I… I'm sorry…" He cooed as Angel nuzzled into his chest and continued to cry, the group gently sighed with Mise rejoining the group as Octavia turned to Mise with a soft smile "Oh there you are, thank you for not peeling the skin of their heads like oranges and for escorting us out of there." Octavia said as Mise nodded.

"You have no idea how badly I wanted, and still do, want to pulls a Reverse Atomic Snake Egg on each and every one of those shit lords." Mise said as emotions similar to that of a bygone era seeped into his system, but quickly disappearing at seeing Octavia's 'don't even think about look' and the heartfelt reunion between Mike and the girls.

Mike soon slowly turned to the other group and only asked "Why…? Why are we all like this? I remember a simpler time… when we all were younger, we were never like this… what happened to us all?" He asked as the other group started to wonder, soon realizing what he was talking about "A-A lot really… What happened to us all?"

Johnny asked while Butch soon spoke up "I guess life just came in the way… I mean, that and maybe pressure from peers and well… Maybe us all changing." He had said, holding Kimberly close. Mike kept Angel close and spoke "I still remember those times… and we can all still be that way… I'm not saying going back to being kids… But I mean, I know you all can become better people… Listen to my words, you were all good once and you can again cause I know there is good in everyone, but there are some that are too far gone… and I know a lot do not want that to happen." He had said as the other group headed his words and nodded as Mike soon started to walk out with the group with Angel by his side as Butch soon spoke up.

"H-Hey… Mike? W-Were sorry about everything and… W-We wanted to thank you, for giving us a chance to change…" He said as Mike smiled softly and nodded "You're welcome, and good luck… all of you." He had said walking out with his group and leaving the school, forever. Outside the group gently breathed in as Mike spoke up "You smell that everyone? It's a new day on the horizon, and it smells great." He said as Mise sniffed the air a little.

"I can't smell anything unless it's right under my nose, 15 years of war has completely fried my nasal senses." Mise said as Octavia facepalmed, making the group snicker "It's a figure of speech man, now come on we got another stop to make." He said walking down the street and into the neighborhoods and walking past multiple homes.

The group was coercing with each other as Angel kept by Mike's side slowly reaching towards his arm, gently wrapping her arms around his and placing her head upon his shoulder letting out a sigh of relief with a soft smile slowly forming upon her face as the group saw this and smiled knowing smiles while some of the girls huffed in jealousy as Octavia whispered to Wave "Guess she has a liking to him, wait till she finds out about you, Crystal and Izzy also being his girlfriends." She had said as Wave giggled softly and nodded.

"Oh yeah, it will be insane but I can see she greatly cares for him, and he does the same for her." She whispered back as Octavia nodded with a soft smile as Mise spoke up towards Mike "So Mike, what's the plan now? Pick up more people?" Mise asked as Mike nodded "Mhmm, were going to Angel's home and getting her parents and her little brother, also to help pack the whole place up after that, only two more stops after that." He had explained with the group nodding as Xeno spoke up.

"Well, at least we still have plenty of time to do all of that and also with how many people we have on hand it should make things easier." He said with the group stopping in front of a large two story house, that was painted in an eggshell white.

The group stood before it as Mike and Angel walked up to the front door as Mike gently knocked on it, soon hearing a small voice behind it "Coming!" The voice had said as the door soon opened to reveal a little boy that looked around the age of eight, with light brown skin and short warm black hair with hazel eyes, he was wearing a striped green and white t-shirt and a pair of dark blue shorts.

He gasped softly seeing Mike and Angel there "B-Big s-sis? What are you doing here? And when did big bro get back?" He asked as Angel giggled softly hearing that as Mike chuckled softly "Visiting, but also doing something your family would enjoy as I gave a promise, and that is not leaving anyone behind." He said as the little kid was going to say something again until a feminine voice spoke up.

"Alex, who's at the door sweetie?" The voice asked as the little boy now known as Alex soon spoke up "It's Big sis and big bro mom! They came over!" He said as the mother was confused by this soon walking in "What do you mean by that, sweetie…? Oh my stars and garters…" She had said seeing Mike.

The woman in question had a bit darker tone of brown for her skin, had long warm black hair and dark hazel eyes wearing that of a grey long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans "I-It can't be…" She had mumbled softly while Mike chuckled softly "Yeah… it's a big surprise for everyone, may we all come in?"

He asked as she nodded a little and with that said the whole group walked in, taking seats in chairs or standing as Alex and his mother sat across from the group while Angel say down with her mother.

The room was filled with silence until Xeno soon spoke up "Uh… Let us introduce ourselves, I am Xeno I am one of the teachers at their school, we have also is Wavedancer, Moonbeam, Isabelle but everyone calls her Izzy, Crystal, Lucy, Remaie, Princess Silverbolt, Stormy I believe her name is, and our two newest students Mise and Octavia." Xeno explained as the three nodded while two names stood out from the rest, intriguing Angel.

The mother looked towards the group and smiled softly "I-It's really nice to meet all of you, but this begs the question… why are you here?" She asked as Mise looked towards the three "Ask Mike, this was his safari, plus I have no idea outside of the vaguely obvious." Mise said as this confused the three a bit more as the turned to Mike.

"I came back to bring all of you to somewhere new… Listen, I may sound really… really bat shit insane, but… The reason I have been gone for so long was… I haven't been even on this planet for that time… I have been staying with aliens." Mike had said as the three soon bursted into laughter as Mike kept his face, while the family continued to laugh but soon began to calm down to see his and the other's faces have not changed.

"O-Oh… Y-You were serious… B-But why didn't you tell us?" Angel asked as Mike sighed very softly "Well for one thing, I would sound insane I may get everyone here detained and experimented on, and it would all end horribly and may even spend the rest of my life on the run." He explained as the three slowly nodded.

"A-Alright… T-That explains where you have been Mike… B-But were glad to have you back again." The mother said as Mike smiled softly "Good to be back, even though it's for a visit but I also came here to bring you all back to where we live, cause I think all of you deserve a fresh start… and let's be honest, the school Me and Angel went to… it ain't the best… I know that for a fact." He said as Angel nodded a little.

"It's true mom… I think this is something we all need, you know? All of us aren't doing well in this area… we need a fresh start mom." She had said as the mother gently sighed and nodded "A-Alright, I will bring it up with your father… for now they are our guests." The mother had said.

The group smiled softly while the mother soon got up "I am going to start some coffee." She had said walking into the kitchen while the group was left with Angel and Alex, as Angel looked at the group but more specifically Mise and Octavia, staring at them till she gasped softly "Oh my god… No wonder you two look so familiar…"

Angel had said as the two looked at her oddly with Mise speaking up "Uhh...what do you mean?" Mise asked confused as to how him and Octavia could have a fan from entirely different part of the universe.

"Yeah, we love our fans, but I didn't know my music and Mise's extensive track list reached this far out." Octavia said with a hint of confusion as well while Angel shook her head "You two are from the Equestria girls movies!"

She had said happily as Mise and Octavia looked at each other, than at Mike who shrugged a little "I only saw the first one and the second one, I don't really remember many of the characters except maybe like the main cast, but that's it." He had said as Angel got up from her seat and ran upstairs, soon running back down with a poster in her hands.

"See! You two are collectable figures from the movie! I have almost all of them!" She said happily, handing the poster to Mise and Octavia as they took a hold of it and looked over it, soon seeing many familiar faces and names as their eyes went wide

"This...is...AWESOME! Octy, wait till Sunset hears about this, Rainbow is gonna be eating her ego filled heart out!" Mise said excitedly as Octavia could not believe what she was looking at, while Mike took a glance at it soon seeing something fairly odd "What the…" He had said looking close to see a familiar figure as his eyes went wide "Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me…" He mumbled softly as everyone turned to him.

Octavia looked over at Mike then at the poster "Just how many figurines are there, Angel? Because no offense, but this is really freaking me out." Octavia said at the thought is this paradoxical situation as she smiled softly "There is about… 43 figures, the two newest ones were from the Halloween special. Right there."

She had pointed at one that was dressed in a familiar letterman, rooster mask and light blue jeans as it read 'Johnny C. "Jacket costume"' and the other in a familiar black jacket, pants and combat boots 'Johnny C.'.

Octavia and Mise eyed it oddly as they looked towards Angel "Okay, now this really weird, Angel...these characters...are our friends in real life, we live on the planet this movies placen, what exactly happened in them?" Mise asked as she smiled softly.

"Okay, so there was the first one with Sunset Shimmer was trying to take over equestria at the fall formal, but was stopped by Twilight and her friends and she became good again, then their was Rainbow rocks where it was a battle of the bands and had the Dazzlings, they were one of my favorite villains and were getting the magic of hatred from everyone in the school, later getting the magic from the main seven and becoming more powerful but later defeated by the main seven again and it was so cool!" Angel had said soon breathing a little and taking another breath.

"And they lost their voices, but I think started to get them back in the shorts that play, which lead where a lot of the other characters come in and after that was the Friendship games with the human Twilight coming in at Crystal Prep and had that whole thing, while I say they are jerks and I still don't know why Indigo and Tiberious got together, I still feel sad for what happened to his ex-girlfriend and his family but anyway the whole magic stealing and fighting Sunset in the end… it was so awesome! And then there were the shorts like carnivals, and music fests, love triangles, and also the Halloween special with that crazy character Johnny, but also had a sweet side and with his four other friends or was it five I can't remember but it was soooo cool! And the part with the singing… It felt really… Familiar actually, but anyway that's everything." She had said as Mise and Octavia's brains looked fried and Mike was trying to sneak away.

That was until Mise grabbed him by the hood "Ah ah ah, my entire reality of the past year and half may have just been summed up in 1 minute but you're not getting away that easily….Johnny!"

Mise said as Mike tried to scramble out of his grasp even more while Angel gasped "H-He's… J-Johnny?" She asked as Octavia nodded "Yes, but in his defence, it was all in good fun even if we didn't know it at the time, besides we both know the one holding Mike has done far worse in Canterlot." Octavia said giggling a bit as Angel nodded.

"I hear you, I thought it was really sweet when he gave all that candy to that little girl, Strawberry I think her name is… He acted really kind to her… Like a father, you know?" She had asked as Octavia nodded while Mike sighed softly and sat down while Mise let go of his hoodie

"Alright… Alright… So you know the truth now… I'm Johnny C, and I terrorized your friends… but to be honest, I thought it would be a little fun to scare people on Halloween." He had said as Mise chuckled softly "That's why I do it every year, that and because I can get my body weight in candy from our friend Pinkie the other 364 days of the year." Mise said as Octavia and Angel giggled at the remark.

"I hear you, she is so energetic as well I thought it was really funny when she was wearing that chicken costume and laid an egg! It was so weird and funny, but makes me question how can she do all that?" Angel asked as the group shrugged "Have no idea really." Mike had said as Mise and Octavia nodded.

"Yeah, no one knows, so we just stopped question it. We even have a phrase for that exact question; 'It's pinkie, don't question it' same goes for Treble and a little of Gaige." Mise said as Octavia nodded in agreement.

Angel just giggled softly as her mother came back with the coffee and started to hand the mugs out to everyone "So, what have I missed while making the coffee?" She asked in a sweet tone as Xeno spoke up

"A lot really, these two finding out that their last year and a half was just movies and shorts to your world, and that Mike had become one of the characters in a special." He had said as the mother stopped for a second "You know what… Maybe I shouldn't have asked…" She had said while Wave spoke up "I think that would be best, just asking us how are school is… Might give you a heart attack." She had said with a tone of seriousness as the mother nodded a little.

The entire room was bathed in silence as everyone was drinking coffee when the front door opened to reveal a man that looked to be close to his late thirties early forties that had a darker skin tone of mahogany brown with short warm brown hair with light green eyes, wearing what looked to be a navy blue suit and tie as he sighed softly.

"Honey… I'm home…" He had said walking in to soon find the group sitting there "Hey Mr. Williams." Mike had said as the man nodded "Hello there Mike… Angel… large group of people I have never met… Uh… W-What's going on?" He asked as everyone filled him.

The man slowly sat down "W-Well… T-That's a lot to take in… B-But I guess is for a good reason…" He said slowly turning to his wife "Honey… I got some bad news… People were getting cut at the office and… I was one of them… I lost my job…" He said in a saddened tone as the mother gently placed her hand on his "Oh honey, it's alright… maybe what they are offering is the best choice we have." She had said as Angel spoke up "It looks like it's our only option right now." She had said with Alex nodding.

The parents didn't know what to do until Xeno spoke up "I may be able to help with this, we can offer your daughter a scholarship to attend our school and you two could be able to work for our school, we make a decent pay though you would have to go through a little training if not they are plenty of jobs in the city." Xeno explained putting the deal on the table as the parents began to think it over as Mise spoke up.

"I'd offer financial help but my fortune is back on our home planet, I never got the chance to break it down into a transportable amount." Mise had said as Mike spoke after him "Well, I could always help. Working night security I make a pretty good amount, and it's pretty fun cause I always play games with some of my co-workers, but also I think we can get Xeno to pull a few strings to let you all stay in a dorm for now, till you all can find a house to live in." Mike had said as Xeno nodded a little

"That could work… I would need to talk to the headmasters…" He said trailing off into thought. The parents started to consider it as they sighed softly and nodded "Alright… we can agree to the terms, hopefully it's not really insane… and maybe there will be a nice elementary school to send Alex to, and Angel could really enjoy her new school."

The father had said as the group smiled "Good, now for the next thing… We pack up your home and get everything onto the ship." Xeno had said as the group slowly nodded while the father stood up "I think it would help if I get a trailer, that make sense?" He asked still worried about this idea while the group nodded as the mother got up also "I'll come with you, everyone else… please be very careful with everything, please?"

She asked in a pleading tone as the group nodded "Don't worry nothing will get broken, you have our word on it." Mike had said as the parents nodded, soon walking out of the home and getting into their car.

A Few Hours Later (About two hours later)...

The group packed the final box and loading it upon the trailer as the father got off the phone "Alright… I just talked to retail office, they said they will take the house off our hands and sell it again, so looks like we're all ready." He had said as the group nodded while Mike spoke up "Alright, Xeno you can bring them back to the ship I… I need to take care of some business…"

He said with some hesitation and walking away from the group and down the street as the group looked towards each other, not sure what he meant as Octavia looked towards a sign to see one that read 'Cemetery' slowly turning towards down the road watching Mike walking "Mike's right, we should go...this doesn't require us…"

Octavia somber, yet, knowingly as she turned toward the direction of the ship as Mise turned to see where she was looking and saw the sign but this time he read it out loud, catching the attention of the group "Why would he be going to a cemetery?"

Stormy asked as Angel slowly spoke up "T-To see his parents… I guess… he's giving one final goodbye…" She had said in a somber tone with her parents, Wave, Moon, Izzy and Crystal nodding.

This made the group feel somber but slowly nodded knowing how it's like to lose someone close soon slowly turning away and started to go towards the woods where the ship was located, over with Mike he walked down the quiet yet desolate streets of his hometown walking past a lone rose bush but slowly stopped turning towards it, gently reaching down and taking a hold of two of them as the thorns pierced his flesh making him grunt softly in pain but soon took the two roses from the bush with small drops of blood ran down the stems.

He walked through the main gate past the groundskeeper who was raking up leaves and pine needles, walking past many gravestones of many family members to different families soon gently trekking up a hill where two grave stones stood both grey and cracked with time, slowly sitting in front of the two he spoke in a soft tone "Hey mom… hey dad… I-It's been awhile since I last talked to you both…"

He had said in a soft, yet gentle tone "I-I've been doing good… School is a little insane… But when isn't it?" He asked chuckling softly at his joke soon softly sighing "But I have good news, I made new friends, i'm in a new school and guess what? I'm in a relationship, I know… I have grown up… crazy thing I have three girlfriends… It's really insane… but I really do care for them… I just wish they could meet you…" He had said with the sting of tears starting to form in his eyes.

His voice started to softly crack "Y-You would have loved them… T-They are really sweet… and funny… A-And always caring…" He said with tears start to fall down his face, dripping upon the soft stone softly sniffling "I… I just wanted to say… I… I love you Mom and Dad… A-And I hope heaven is doing great for you two… A-And that… I… I'm leaving… I… I will try to visit as much as I can… G-Goodbye…" He said as the tears continued to fall soon slowly placing the roses upon the gravestones as drops of blood gently dripped upon the graves from the thorns and mixed with the tears.

He slowly got up from the ground as he felt a drip hit his head, and another followed by another as it started to gently sprinkle rain upon him slowly turning back towards the entrance and walking down the hill again leaving the cemetery, over with the group as they were unloading the van into the cargo hold of the ship Angel could not shake the thoughts of Mike as she worried about him as Mise got her out of her thoughts.

"H-Huh? O-Oh sorry Mise, what did you say?" She asked with him looking at her and gently taking the box "I said, I've been in his exact position before, and he's going to fine, so give me the box before you drop it." Mise repeated as Angel nodded a little and gently handed him the box, watching him walk into the cargo hold. She gently sighed and sat down in the trailer as Octavia sat next to her "You're really worried about him, huh?" She asked, trying to give Angel some company as she nodded a little.

"Y-Yeah… H-He's my best friend since well… ever since he moved here so many years ago…" She had said soon blushing softly "You may find this silly, but i've had a crush on him since the third grade… I was too much of a chicken to tell him how I feel…" She had said as Octavia giggled softly and gently placed her hand on Angel's shoulder.

"That is absolutely adorable, I don't find it silly at all, besides, I didn't exactly win any prizes with Mise either when I married him, and to boot, when I first met him he was the guy I hired to do all the cooking for me and Vinyl, so I'd say I kind have you beat there." Octavia said giggling, making Angel smile a little.

"I hear you on that, guess we both got crazy tastes for the ones we love… but that's what makes them special… Hey Octavia? What were your friends really like? Like Tiberious, Indigo, Artemis, all of them?" Angel asked as Octavia mulled over the thought a little "Well...considering there's almost 25 of them this will take a while and i'll save most of it for the trip, but Tiberious, he was like a big tall teddy bear but if you made him mad he'd skin you like a sheep. Artemis was my semi-adoptive brother with me and Vinyl being his sisters, known each other since childhood, very straight edge, human Munchlax, but extremely fun to be around. I'll tell you more on the way like I promised."

She said with a smile, making Angel smile and nod "Alright, that sounds fair… I hope to one day meet them." She had said as Octavia giggled and nodded soon getting up from the trailer soon hearing what could be was humming.

The group heard the humming to soon see Mike walking up drenched in rain with his earbuds in his ears but with distinct red streaks on them "From the city of angels…. And every vessel of devils… is there no one to save us…" He gently hummed and walked up as Octavia and Angel soon gasped, seeing his hands were cut up from the thorns of the roses he picked with Octavia stopping him.

"Mike! What happened to your hands?!" Octavia yelled as Mike stopped and looked down at his hands "Huh… guess I did cut them… It was from the roses I picked…" He had said Angel looked into one of the boxes and grabbed the medkit and sprayed his hands with disinfectant, making him grunt very softly in pain.

"Tis but a flesh wound." He said as Angel wrapped his hands in gauze "A flesh wound?! Your hands are fucked up!" She yelled while Mike gently shrugged "I've had worse…" He had said in a quiet, yet serious tone as Angel soon finished bandaging up his hands. "There, now no more messing your hands up, you hear me mister?"

She asked with a serious tone and face as Mike nodded a bit soon taking his earbuds out of his ears and looked into the trailer "Damn… the whole thing is practically empty." He had said as Mise walked out and nodded.

"Yeah, but it'll be full if we took the furnishings but we don't need them, which reminds me, uh are we just going to abandon this house and leave most of this stuff here or is there more you want to take?" Mise asked Angel turned to her parents.

"We took everything we would like to keep, including our beds, electronics and everything else we needed, the couch, tables and chairs were from a renting place so we have everything we need and the house is already taken care of, so we should be able to leave with no worries." The father had said as Mise nodded walking back into the ship while Mike stacked a few boxes on top of each other.

"W-Wait! Mike you shouldn't lift anything, you are already hurt!" Angel had said as Mike soon lifted the four boxes with ease, surprising the four. "It's fine Angel, I got it." He said walking into the ship as Octavia giggled softly when the family turned towards her "This is what I mentioned before at the school, remember when Mike said he was experimented on? Well it gave several special abilities as a result."

Octavia said reassuringly as the four looked at her "He was experimented on?!" They screamed as Mike facepalmed and Mise snickered while Wave spoke up "He never said that, at least I don't think he has..." She had said as Octavia giggled softly and scratched the back of her head.

Mike sighed softly and nodded "Yeah… I was, there is a lot I have never told… which I will with time. But anyway yeah, I only know of a few so far, but that is not important right now we need to get everything ready to leave… I even gave my big bro and his family a call." He had said walking back into the ship as the girls helped get the last of the stuff into the ship, emptying the trailer as the parents soon spoke up.

"W-Well… anyway, we better return the trailer, all of you should probably getting ready and stay in the large ship… thing." The mother had said soon entering the car with her husband as the girls brought in Alex, Angel, Mise and Octavia back into the ship. Angel turned to Octavia as she gently spoke up "I-Is it true? W-Was he really experimented on?" She asked as Octavia gently nodded.

"Yes, but it's very long, complicated story. Good news is the guy that did it has since been brought to justice and Mike survived the ordeal." Octavia said as Angel sighed softly in relief "That's good to hear… hopefully Mike is okay…" She had said in a quiet tone, feeling sorry for Mike as he walked out of the armory, clipping his belt around his waist soon finding Angel.

"Hey guys, as well hey Angel." He said walking away into the kitchen while Angel saw his revolver making her uneasy as Mise reassured her "Don't worry, it's standard school protocol, plus it's for defense purposes only." Mise said in a confident tone while Angel slowly nodded "A-Alright… I-I'm guessing I need to get one as well…?"

She asked as the two nodded while Alex chuckled "That is so cool!" He said happily as Xeno walked out of the armory to find the group "Oh! Angel, there you are. I was talking to the headmasters and they would like for you to fill out the paperwork to join the school, also this is for you." He said handing her a familiar looking browning hp.

She gently took the handgun, nearly dropping it because of the weight, but kept a good grip on it as Xeno gently whispered to Mise and Octavia "Don't tell anyone… but we have a major problem at the school, most of the top fighters are out of commission, something is happening they aren't injured badly, but aren't going to be able to compete." He whispered as this caught Mise and Octavia off guard but soon whispered back.

"Do you know what might be causing it? Better yet, why tell us and not Mike, Moon, Wave, or Crystal?" Mise asked as Xeno shook his head "I don't know, but I feel like someone or a group of people are targeting the school's best fighters… probably one of the schools… and I already warned them, with Silver, Lucy, and Remaie… I didn't warn Stormy cause I have worries she may be part of it… but I am not fully sure about it… anyway I am warning all of you to keep on your toes." He warned as the two nodded as Xeno walked away from the four.

Angel was a little confused of what was going on as Mise soon cleared his throat and walked in front of everyone, and started to direct them to the living area "Hey… how about we all go relax in the living area, maybe watch some TV and wait for your parents to arrive back so we can get back to our school?"

Mise suggested as the three nodded and followed him down the hall and into the living area as the girls were relaxing around the room and watching TV, playing a few card games, checking their gear or reading as with them was Mike who was cleaning the chambers of his revolver.

The four walked in as Mise sat down on the couch while Alex joined him, as Octavia sat down in a chair with Angel sitting next to her "Hey Octavia? Can you tell me the story of your friends?" She asked as Octavia nodded with a soft smile, gently sitting back in her chair.

"Well, we already went over Tiberious, Artemis, and now let's go Mise because there's more to him than wanting to fight people. He honestly has one of the most complex personalities because he's not just one or two types, he's a whole cocktail. He's very down to earth, yet can command almost any group or single person, can cook, was in the military, and despite all his rough and jagged edges, he's a very genuine person. Next is Eclipse, he's like a cross between Mise and Tiberious with a hint of Artemis. The four of them are their own sub group. Next is Warhawk, he's Sonata's boyfriend, which reminds me, most of the ships you and rest of the fans have put together, probably aren't accurate but not entirely off~, anyway he's very big and imposing but behind that metal head persona and bearded camo look, is a very sweet and often shy man who just wants to live his life and let others live theirs."

Octavia said as she continued to go through all of her friends and what Angel knew as some of her favorite characters and giggled softly listening to this, not knowing that her parents had came back and we're already off the planet as she smiled softly "Your friends are really crazy but also very kind, but I still can't believe that some of my favorite characters from some of my favorite movies are actual people, it's really crazy."

She had said as Octavia giggled softly and nodded "Well, a lot of things are pretty crazy. Finding out that on your planet they are just movies and our planet it's our lives, but yeah I agree it's pretty crazy however that's what makes it fun at times." Octavia had said giggling.

Angel giggled softly and nodded as the group was relaxing, while Mise watched TV and turning out everything 'I wonder what the hell is going on at the school, at first I thought it might be a disease of some kind but this definitely sounds like sabotage...I'm going to talk to the headmasters when we get back if this sabotage, they'll need an expert in the same thing to spot and end it…' Mise plotted in his head.

As Mise was plotting in his head Mike was practicing with his staff, soon activating the ice flamethrower piece but activated it to where it only had two prongs active as it soon instantly started to freeze as it formed into a large ice spear head with ice like spikes surrounding it, making him smile with glee "Wicked…"

He said soon spinning his staff now spear around and began to jab the air as he was far from away from the group so no one could be hurt, as Octavia giggled softly watching with Angel "The only thing that would make this funnier to watch would be if fruit was raining around him." Octavia said as Angel nodded with a soft smile and giggled, while Izzy heard this and quickly ran into the kitchen, soon coming back with random kinds of fruit in her arms.

"Heads up Mr. Snuggles!" She yelled soon throwing the fruit at Mike as he tried to dodge them, soon getting hit in the stomach with a neonmelon making him drop the staff, grab his stomach in pain and fall onto the ground on his side, groaning softly.

This made the group burst into laughter as Moon scolded Izzy "Izzy, you just hit Mike in the stomach with a neonmelon." She said with anger in her tone. Izzy just giggled sweetly "I thought he could slice it like in that funny game." She said happily as Mike slowly sat up "Y-Yeah… but this ain't fruit ninja Izzy… that really hurt…"

He said looking ready to vomit and sitting against a wall as Izzy walked over and sat next to him "I'm really sorry Mr. Snuggles." She had said in a solemn face, as Mike sighed softly soon gently smiling "It's alright Izzy, just promise not to do that again, okay?" He asked as she nodded "I promise Mr. Snuggles!" She said happily, gently kissing Mike's cheek making him chuckle softly.

Angel smiled a little but gently sighed as Octavia caught this and reassured her "Don't worry, you'll get your chance, I promise." She said, smiling softly as Angel nodded a little "I… I hope so… but it looks like he already has a girlfriend…" She said in a saddened tone as Wave spoke up "Three." She said making Angel turn to her "He has three girlfriends, Me, Crystal and Izzy. Polygamy is legal on our planet, so you can even date him."

She had said with a warm smile as Angel's jaw nearly hit the ground, making Octavia and Wave giggle madly. Mike was sitting upon the couch as Xeno spoke up "You all like music?" Xeno asked, making the group look at each other as he spoke again "Yes or no?" He asked with a grin with Mike slowly spoke up.

"Uh, what kind of music?" He asked unsure what to say as Xeno spoke again "Yes or no?" Xeno asked with Mike gently shrugging "Yes..?" He said a little unsure as Xeno smiled happily and ran over to a small device as he pressed a button, soon playing a familiar song making both Mike and Angel start to smile as Angel giggled happily.

The group was confused on what was going on as a saxophone began to play with Mike gently taking Angel's hand as the two began to dance, making the group smile warmly at the scene with some of the girls getting huffy about it, but couldn't help but smile as the group started to dance along with the beat of the song.

Time passed by for the group as they talked to each other, watched TV, ate food together and playing games as the group was getting ready to land, while most of the group had grabbed their armor and were changed back to their normal selves, much to the surprise to the family but soon calmed down as Xeno walked to the group "Is everyone ready?"

He asked as they all nodded, putting their gear on and adjusting them while Angel's family looked a little uneasy as Mike put his helmet on "It's just so we don't have to carry all this stuff, anyway we should get ready you are all getting a tour of the school after the school wars." He said adjusting his helmet and pulling up the bandana over his mouth.

The group soon felt the ship shift up and down a little as Xeno spoke up "We've landed, please follow me off the ship everyone." He had said as the group nodded and followed behind him as he activated the cargo door, soon opening it to reveal the headmasters with some security guards at the airfield.

"Ahh, you must be the Williams family, please come down we welcome you to The Academy Of The Stars." Headmaster Kona had said with a soft smile upon her face as they gently waved towards them as Evolver turned to the security.

"Please, get their bags into their temporary stay area." He said as the security walked in and started to grab the boxes and bring them onto a small dolly bed while the headmasters turned towards the group "All of you please, go to your dorms it's very late and tomorrow is one of the hardest days of the School wars so you all better rest up."

Kona said as the group nodded as Angel kept close to Mike "C-Can I stay with… M-Mike for tonight?" She asked as her family turned towards the headmasters as they nodded with soft smile "Of course, whatever makes you comfortable, and we will have the paperwork ready for you in the morning with your bracelet." Evolver said as she nodded a little and followed the group as Wave thought to herself.

'That might be why there adding her in so fast is because most of the strongest fighters are out of commission and the rest try to act as cannon fodder to help stop all this…' Wave thought to herself as the group entered the school while Angel gasped softly seeing this as Mise chuckled softly "Come on, let's get you settled in, i'll make everyone dinner." Mise offered as Octavia's stomach growled.

"Mmmm, I haven't had your cooking in so long…" Octavia said blushing lightly as he chuckled softly while Wave spoke up "I can help you if you like, since I am guessing you have no idea how to cook our food, I am guessing?" She asked as Mise didn't want to admit it, he had no real idea how to cook the kind of food they eat.

He nodded a little as the group snickered softly "Don't worry, once you get the hang of it you will get it man, I didn't even know how to cut a avesmingo, and that thing is insane." Mike had said while Mise shrugged a little as the group continued to walk to their dorm, soon entering it as the group tossed their stuff to the sides as Mike tossed his helmet onto his bed and popped his neck.

"Fuck man… what a damn day, oh yeah there's a hot plate over there on top of the counter, the pots and other stuff are in the cabinet below the counter." Mike explained as Mise nodded while everyone soon took a load off.

Mise and Wave started to get dinner together as Mike was measuring Angel as Octavia looked at him oddly "Uh Mike, why are you measuring Angel?" Octavia asked while he smiled softly "So I can make sure she can get some armor made for the school wars, maybe leather it's lightweight and can keep your hide still attached."

He had said writing down her measurements as Angel still looked a little uneasy at the idea but slowly looked towards the handgun in her hands and sighed softly 'T-This is my life now… B-But this is only in self-defense and defense…' She thought to herself.

Mike started to draw a design of Angel's armor and started to think 'Maybe a vest would be better or… no, no… maybe a brigandine? No that would be too heavy… maybe… AHHHHHHH!' He mentally screamed in his head soon slamming his head down on the table this startled the group a little as Octavia looked over the design and showed it to Angel.

"So what do think?" She asked as Angel looked over it a little, soon gently taking the pencil Mike had and gently drew a few things to it and changed a little bit of it "There, I added a few things. I-I hope you don't mind, Mike." She had said as Mike slowly lifted his head and saw the design as his eyes went a little wide.

The design was that of a leather armor corset with pauldrons that went down the shoulders more for better protection with a wolf on the side which looked to be howling in the moon, with it was a leather tasset that looked like a three area split skirt to protect the legs, with leather knee guards that protected both her knees and her lower area of her legs, last part of it was a pair of what looked to be wrapped bracers that gave it a platted look.

Mike looked towards Angel "Are you sure you want this?" He asked as Angel nodded a little while Mike nodded "Alright, I will give the plans to Vei in the morning, it will give us time to find you a perfect melee weapon and get you a belt, holster and ammo pouch for your gun." He had said while Angel nodded a bit, as Mise and Wave came back with dinner ready.

"Dinner is served, ladies and Mike." Mise said as he set the table as everyone gathered around to eat as Angel looked a little oddly at the food but Mike reassured her "It's really good, you will really like it." Mike had said while Angel slowly nodded soon taking a bite as her eyes went wide and started to devour the food soon stopping as everyone was looking at her, making her blush deeply as Mise chuckled softly.

"Guess someone new likes my cooking as well." Mise had said with a soft smile and chuckling a bit while Angel still had her blush, while Mike smiled softly "Well all I can say, it's a good dinner and with great friends, it's a great way to end a day." Mike had said while the group nodded with soft smiles sitting back and relaxing, enjoying their meals.

The group relaxed soon changed into their pajamas and was watching TV, as Lucy, Silver, Remaie and Silver soon got up from their seats

"We better get back to our dorms, thanks for the meal guys. We'll see you all in the morning." Remaie had said as the three nodded as everyone waved goodbye to the four as Angel yawned softly, with her head slowly sliding onto Mike's shoulder as in his case he didn't really mind as Moon had hers on his other shoulder while Octavia giggled softly and nudged Mise's arm showing him this as he smiled softly, soon whispering to Octavia.

"Let's give Angel our bed for the night, besides, that couch has just enough room for two~" Mise said as Octavia giggled and nodded soon dragging him to the couch as Mike gently yawned as he gently picked up Angel and Moon as Angel was already fast asleep, gently setting Angel in Mise and Octavia's bed and pulling the blankets up on her, watching her snuggle into the blankets soon slowly bringing Moon to her bed as she still had a grip on Mike.

Soon slowly turning to Octavia and Mise who were fast asleep making him chuckle softly "Guess the TV is shutting itself off tonight…" He said soon getting into the bed with Moon, gently pulling the blankets upon themselves, slowly letting sleep overtake himself as he snuggled close to Moon.

The Next Morning (Thursday)...

The group slowly started to wake up as Mike was the first one awake of the group, already dressed and started to make breakfast for everyone as Mise slowly woke up, stifling a yawn slowly turning to see Mike making breakfast "M-Mike…? What are you doing up so early…? I-I can make breakfast man." He had said as Mike gently shook his head "Na man, you guys are our guests… plus I don't sleep as much as I need so it's fine man."

He had said making scrambled eggs as Octavia gently mumbled "Mmmmm, Antonio...of course he won't mind…" Octavia said in her sleep as Mise chuckled "Dreaming about that damn violin/cello maker again, see…" Mise said, kissing Octavia's forehead making Mike chuckle softly.

"I say that's pretty crazy, but what do I know really… anyway breakfast is almost done you want anything else with breakfast? Bacon? Hashbrowns? Sake?" Mike asked as the last one peaked Mise's interest "You guys have Sake all the way out here? Better yet, bacon and potatoes?" Mise asked surprised as Mike nodded.

"Yup. As well the bacon comes from some creatures normally like Lilodon, Capricoat's shit like that man, they get the flesh and turn into bacon, potatoes they got from different plants and sell the seeds, and sake that one surprised me the most and is made generally by the Hylotl and served at hotsprings."

Mike had explained while Mise nodded a little. "Well if there's one thing I like more than whiskey, it's Sake. Is there any place on or around campus I can buy some when I get settled back in financially? I hate having to depend on you and the girls to pay for us." Mise said as Mike gently shook his head.

"Not as far as I know man, I got the thing of Sake we have off planet, but I can always look around." He said soon getting an idea "You know, you and Octavia could always work at where I work, we could always use more night security. Also if you say anything about my co-workers I will make sure a real bite of 87 happens." He explained with the last part in a serious tone while Mise nodded a bit, but made him a little confused at his words.

"Uh huh….right, well I can assure you as someone who was born under tyranny and subjected to persecution my whole life I can assure you that won't happen, besides, what makes you think anyone would?" Mise asked nonchalantly as Mike turned towards him.

"Cause Sprinkles always got made fun of or was ridiculed for being the only human synth that works there, I was even subjected to it cause I looked like a deformed Apex because I have no hair or a tail. That changed though after I did a stage play with Foxy, but you get what I mean." He had said with Mise nodding a little.

He soon sat up as the rest of the girls started to slowly wake up as Mise gently set the plates down on the coffee table "Well I certainly appreciate the offer, how much does it pay?" Mise asked as Mike started to think "About ninety pixels a day, it's not bad pay and good news is the money stacks up real fast, it's how I was able to get mine, yours and Octavia's gear."

Mike had explained while Mise nodded a little in thought "Aright, well it beats shmucking off you guys, I'll be sure to have you take me there so I can apply." Mise said while Mike nodded. "I will make sure to man, after the school wars or maybe after today which ever be a better idea." Mike had said as the girls sat down around the table while Mike started to put the food onto the plates, watching them eat soon taking his plate and starting to eat while Octavia soon spoke up with a soft smile.

"Oh boy Mise, you must've been so hungry you couldn't even tell me it was ready, typical guy, they never eat what you tell or want them to." Octavia said as Mise nearly choked on his food making the group burst into laughter as Mike nudged Mise's arm.

"She got you man!" He said while laughing as Mise got ready to coal coke Mike he merely smiled and let his fist drop "Yeah, but you're a guy too, and I only have one to worry about in that department, you have 3 chances to follow the same road, so I wouldn't be so quick on the draw." Mise said with a grin, making Mike snicker softly.

He gently sighed with a soft smile "That is very true… though, I almost lost it as well…" He had said in a low tone, soon gently setting his plate on the table "I… I'm done… I-I'm gonna go send these plans over to Vei…" He had said soon getting up from his seat, walking out of the dorm room leaving the room bathed in silence as Angel slowly spoke up.

"I-Is he… O-Okay?" She asked as most of the group slowly shook their heads "Something happened here… about three months ago… we haven't even told Mise and Octavia yet… but we were going to…" Crystal had said as Octavia nodded, looking towards the group.

"Well whatever it is, i'm sure we can lend a hand in fixing it, back home a lot of circle was made of the social odds and ends and we helped each other, soon overcoming what once divided us." Octavia said smiling, making the group smile and nod.

"Thank you, i'm sure he will very much appreciate that, he still feels uneasy about it and still thinks he's going to become a monster because of it." Wave had said as Mise gently waved it off. "It's no problem, we always help our friends out no matter what the situation is." He said as the girls nodded with warm smiles.

The group soon placed their plates together and Mise grabbed them, soon carrying them to the bathroom and began to wash the dishes in the sink as the group was putting on their gear, and checking it over however for Angel it was just trying to properly hold her handgun nearly dropping it until she felt someone's hands upon hers from behind, making her blush softly.

"Aim it straight, bend your elbows in a little and do be careful of how much the weapon weighs, the heavier the material and length, the heavier the weapon." The voice said as Angel slowly turned to find Mike helping her, making her blush a little deeper "A-Alright… A-And thank you…" She had said a little shyly as Mike smiled softly.

"You're very welcome, also here. This is for you from Vei." He said handing her a tactical belt with a holster, pouch for magazines and a wooden dagger in a leather sheath, Angel gently grabbed it as Octavia turned and smiled softly "You're going to do just fine Angel, no need to be nervous." Octavia said in a reassuring tone while Angel nodded a little gently shaking as Mike soon spoke up "That reminds me, you're armor should be ready soon, possibly after the first round today so I am just going to say keep close to us, okay?" He asked Angel as she slowly nodded.

Mike smiled softly walking over to his armor and starting to put it on, grabbing his helmet and gently tossing it into his hands and putting it on his head and strapping it while pulling up his bandana while Wave and Mise were looking out the window to see stuff being moved into the arena, this made Mise a little confused as he looked a little closer to see liquid nitrogen tankers.

"Liquid nitrogen? Well based on what i've seen so far, i'm guessing that's for some kind of snow covered tundra environment?" Mise asked as he kept a second theory inspired from what Xeno told him, to himself as Wave nodded "Yeah… but with all that it's a…" She tried to say as she gasped softly with her eyes going wide "T-Tier 5 arena… W-Were going into a tundra planet like environment… O-Oh no… Oh no this is bad… this is bad…" She said as she began to pace back and forth.

This got Mise's and even Octavia's attention as Octavia turned to the group "What's a 'Tier 5 arena'?" Octavia asked with a hint of worry in her voice as Crystal spoke up.

"A tier 5 arena is only for extreme terrain like area's, this school helps us only up to tier 5 but their are ones that are even worse than this. It starts out at tier 0, like moons and stuff, then goes to tier 1 which is low danger, like asteroids, garden planets and barren like planets. They go through the tiers of how dangerous the area is going to be, tier 5 planets are all ice based since they come from frozen stars, they are labeled as extreme since of how cold they can become." Crystal explained as Mise, Octavia, Angel and Mike started to piece together everything.

"And if it's an extreme arena, that would mean something like a midnight planet making it we all would be sitting ducks but not only that… I heard that some students are cold blooded…" Mike had said as Mise soon spoke up "So is my ex-girlfriend, what's your point? And plus i'm no stranger to frozen weather."

Mise said as Octavia snickered a bit as Moon just shook her head "Whatever that means, but also these places are much colder than anything you're used to even walking into an arctic ocean would be like stepping into liquid nitrogen…" Moon warned gravely as Mise simply nodded a bit as Octavia physically shivered at just the thought "Mise maybe a human walrus, but I for one, can't stand the cold, is there anywhere I can by fur or something for added warmth?" Octavia said hugging herself as Mise put his jacket on her.

The group began to think as Izzy spoke up "A very nice lady sells all kinds of furry jackets and stuff, maybe we can buy some stuff there. Can I get a fur jacket Mr. Snuggles?" Izzy asked with a cute face, making Mike chuckle and gently place his hand on her head "Of course, Izzy." He said gently petting her head as the group snickered softly at the scene.

The group soon got up from their seats and began to walk out of the dorm room, while Mike grabbed his cloak off the shelf and walking out as Mise soon walked past Mike as he whispered to him "Thanks again for doing this, I promise i'll pay you back for everything...also, what does one have to do to get a meeting with the headmasters?" Mise asked shifting his eyes back and forth as Mike whispered back

"You're very welcome man, as well if you want to talk to them, just go up and talk to them they always have time for students, it's how we finally got evidence against our ex-geology teacher… just be careful of what you say, alright man?" Mike whispered back as Mise nodded, walking along.

The group had soon made it out of the school and into the fairgrounds as the people were starting to get things ready as Octavia turned to Mike and asked him "So Mike, where is that stand Izzy was talking about?" Octavia Asked looking around at the various stalls.

Mike looked around a little, soon pointing out at one that had different kinds of furs being set up "Over there I would believe, their fur I have heard comes from many types of creatures that have grown old, but the fur still maintains its warmth."

Mike explained as Octavia nodded a bit soon walking over to the stand with the rest of the group as running the stand were a dark blue and green male Hylotl with short dark blue fins, wearing a light gray kimono and a female Novakid with light green with what could be said was ice blue swirls running around her body with large messy light green hair wearing a dark blue changshan, as she looked to be five months pregnant as she was speaking to the Hylotl "We are not naming our baby Starchaser, that sounds like something you say when you're stoned out of your gourd." The female had said as the man sighed.

"Well we have to name our child something, sweetie. I mean we could always name it after your great grandmother." He said as the female was about to speak until the group gently cleared their throats stopping the two stopped and smiled softly "Sorry about that, how may we help you today?"

The man asked with Octavia soon speaking up with a soft smile "Yes, we're looking to buy some fur coats and accessories." Octavia said as Mise started browsing the racks just out of curiosity while the two nodded "Of course, please do browse we also help in assistance of sewing in fur and even sell sewing kits if you're interested." The woman had said with the group nodding.

As the group looked over the fur coats and pelts Mike gently set down his cloak and asked for a recommendation of fur, as Mise looked at him oddly but gently shrugged soon gently placing his hand upon some fur slowly rubbing his hand across the black and white fur.

"Fascinating, very exotic, this is nothing like what we have on my planet. Also, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation, might I recommend the name Stella, it means celestial star where I'm from." Mise said as he tried on a few hats, the man nodded as Mike shrugged a little

"I guess that would be neat… Can I get that sew in the left top near the collar?" He asked as the man nodded, starting to sew the words into the cloak while sewing in a fur lining of a dark brown fur and adding a large string near the front as Octavia soon found a large brown fur coat with a cocoa color fur lining.

"Ooooh~ this is sooo nice! And it decently priced, Mise what do you think, does this coat make me look fat?" Octavia said as Mise sprung up stiff as a board and turned around "I'm going to be blunt, yes, it does, because brown is not your color, white is, it looks more elegant and will provide additional camouflage in the tundra."

Mise said as Octavia smiled satisfied "You're smarter than you look." She said as Mise subtly sighed in relief. The group snickered softly as Mike soon grabbed the cloak and wrapped it around his neck, tieing it as it hide most of his body making him smile softly

"Wicked…" He had said as Izzy grabbed a black furred coat with matching fur line, Moon grabbed a light egg shell white one with light brown fur lining, Crystal grabbed one of dark brown with light white fur lining, and Angel grabbed the dark brown coat that Octavia had as Wave just sat around a little with Octavia looking towards her.

"Wave? You don't see anything you like?" Octavia asked as Wave smiled softly and gently shook her head "Not really, cause I already have one. Mike found it for me in the abandoned outpost around three months back, I had it washed a few times cause I didn't know if it had any blood on it or not." Wave had said with a soft smile, soon looking into her bracelet like how she showed Mike.

Soon finishing looking for what she was looking for, she soon summoned from her bracelet a familiar dark black looking fur lined jacket gently wrapping around her body and zipping it up as Octavia smiled softly "Wow, it's beautiful, and Mike just gave it to you? Wow, wonder what that's like…"

Octavia said as Mise chimed in "I traveled 10,000 miles to a continent of dirt and rock just get you a ring for our wedding, be grateful." He said as Octavia giggled "Day 950, he still hasn't caught on to me trolling him." She said as Wave giggled a bit

"That's really sweet, if you ask me. I have to say you two are completely different but click so very well, it's like a love story out of a fiction." Wave had said with a warm smile, while Octavia giggled softly and Mise smiled softly, rolling his eyes.

The group soon grabbed their jackets as Mike payed for everything as Mise thought about buying the hat 'One hand, it's looks absolutely ridiculous on me and it's not my size, but on the other it'll hide me better, it's closest one to my size, and it'll keep my ears from falling off..fuck it, I like my ears' Mise said as he brought the ushanka style hat to the clerks.

Mike set out the pixels that were needed as the husband scrapped it into a small metal bin with a soft smile "Thank you very much, and hope you all have a great day and good luck in the school wars you eight."

He said with the group nodding with soft smiles and saying goodbye as the husband and wife gently waved goodbye to them watching the group walk into the arena, soon walking down the halls and splitting up into the two locker rooms as Mike and Mise walked into the locker room where there was less students this time as Zahi was giving instructions, but seemed to be slurring a little of his words.

"And you will need to be very careful on what you do and… Ah fuck it, we're going to lose anyway… most of our best fighters are in the fucking hospital… whatever… Just...try not to get killed or whatever… And blah blah blah… the place is extreme conditions… Yada yada yada… Night vision goggles are prohibited since we will not have the Midnight planet shit… I'm gonna go take a nap…" He said soon falling on a bench asleep with a bottle in his hand, as Mise turned to Mike.

"Looks like you and me are gonna be carrying this team to victory given those students are out of commission, i'm gonna be White Death and you'll be Stone Crab, slow, steady, but deadly as hell to it's prey." Mise said in a Hos Delgado voice as he put on a white fur overcoat, white Ushanka, white gloves, boots, and scarf.

Mike nodded adjusting his helmet a little "Got you man, as well when did you become Hos Delgado?" He asked with a smirk as Mise chuckled softly and punched his arm while adjusting his jacket and putting his bandolier over his coat "When my balls dropped 5 years ago and i've been kicking ass since, especially those goddamn mutant space zombie lobsters." Mise said as he looked himself over in the mirror.

Mike snickered softly as he tied his cloak a little more tighter as it surrounded his body hiding his weapons as he smiled softly, but soon slowly fell "Let's just hope this goes over well… I don't want this to end horribly, you know man?"

Mike had said gently sitting down on a bench as Mise nodded and leaned against a set of the lockers "I feel you man, I totally feel you. I don't know how many of these students have actually been to war, let alone killed anyone, but unfortunately I bear those scars. It's not easy, it fucks you up emotionally and mentally, you go without sleep or a home for months and even years, you eat what you can find and sleep where you can hoping no one shoots you in your sleep. This may not be an actual life or death scenario but know that I got your back 110% just as if it were, we're brothers in arms now."

Mise said as he walked over and put his hand on Mike's shoulder, making him smile very softly "Thanks man, I really needed that… and I know what you mean, I took my first life around three months ago… The same thing the girls say and even some students will say it… Our ex-geology teacher, turned out to be a sadistic serial killer… when we finally found out he held the school hostage with explosives near the fuel lines, it would have blown us all to hell if we didn't stop him… I kind of lost it… and decapitated him with a garrote wire…"

Mike had said gently placing his hands in his lap, gently turning towards Mise. "I even put his latest victim out of her misery… I couldn't sleep that night… I had a horrible nightmare, and the next thing I know I wake around three in the morning… I told Remaie about it and she slapped the living hell out of me and told me I would never become a monster…" He said gently sighing "I think I passed out up there on the roof… and woke up the next day in my dorm room…" Mike had said as Mise gently nodded.

"Remember when I said we weren't that different? This is what I meant. When I was brought to trial for my crimes they charged me with 3000 counts of murder, 50,000 assaults, and crimes against humanity. I was a 21 year old charged with crimes that would shame most serial killers, and one of my victims was my best friend at the time, and it wasn't an accident, it was assisted suicide, he begged me to kill him...he couldn't take the conditions of war, so I put one in the side of his head while he slept. But you know what all this means regarding you and me?" Mise asked as sitting next Mike as he shook his head.

"I don't really know man… I don't know what to think anymore really…" He said as Mise looked off towards the distance and sat back a little "It means that if some as fucked up as me, who did things that required an international military tribunal to judge can be redeemed and find peace in the universe, then by damn so can you." Mise said with a warm smile, making Mike gently smile.

"Thanks man, you know… you're right, that makes me feel a little better… Kind of makes me look towards the future and seeing what will happen." Mike had said with a gentle smile as Mise got up and patting his shoulder "You're very welcome my friend, one reason I do what I do is to at least try and make up for all the pain and misery I caused by spreading happiness, joy, and everything heartfelt anywhere and everywhere I go, by any means possible. Because i'm probably not going anywhere good when I die but I can still try and cushion my fall from grace when it happens."

Mise said with a brotherly smile, helping Mike up off the bench. Mike mirrored Mise's smile and nodded "I hear you man, and if you ask me redemption will help you get into the gates of heaven when you die. That's my opinion, and no one can say other wise for it, but also you remind me a lot of my older brother."

He said as Mise kept his smile and gently nudged Mike's arm and started to walk out of the locker room with the rest of the students "Well whatever happens, I know it'll be what was meant to happen. And thanks man, that means a lot to me, I'm sure you brother is/was a great guy." Mise said as he walked with Mike, tucking his bandolier under flaps of his coat. Mike chuckled softly and walked with the group into the ready room as he nodded.

"I hear you man, and you're very welcome as well he is. I visited him and my sister in law when we visited my earth when we went to go get Angel, even gave them a final call before I left." He had said as Mise nodded, as the two walked into the ready room to find Octavia, Angel and Wave waiting for them with two other students as Octavia saw the two and smiled softly.

"Well, well, well, it's about time you two emerged from your cave, Mise, you look like a polar bear cub and Mike you look like some Sci-Fi tomb raider, but it works for you admittedly." Octavia said as Mise scrunched his face once more, making Angel and Wave giggle softly as Mike snickered softly.

"Thank you Octavia, but also Mise has a smart idea, he can use the color of the snow to his advantage. Me on the other hand, I look like something out of a damn snowy apocalypse or from Borderlands." Mike had said as Mise smiled softly.

"Thank you Mike, and well you're both right in a way, since all polar bears are descendents of the now extinct Irish brown bear and i'm taking after the Finnish WWII sniper who dressed in all white and took on the invading Russian army by hiding the deep snow banks of the arctic forests, but that's all for 'why Mise does stupid and questionable things' right now." Mise said as Octavia playfully rolled her eyes "Yeah and because you sleep all day waiting for a female to approach." She rebutled making the group burst into laughter.

Mise pouted as Mike soon began to calm down "S-Sorry Mise, but that was pretty fucking funny." He said as Angel and Wave giggled a little softer as Mise sighed softly and shook his head, soon smiling a little "It's alright, I thought it was pretty funny." Mise had said as the three nodded, while this was going on Angel slowly walked over to Mike with a soft blush.

"I-I think your outfit is pretty cool." Angel had said with her blush, while Mike smile softly "Thanks Angel, I-I think your jacket looks really nice." He said to Angel with a blush slowly forming under his bandana as Mise, Octavia and Wave snickered softly soon turning to Mise and Octavia.

"I think they have their eye for each other, but I would say Moon is going to be first before Angel." Wave had said as the two nodded with knowing smiles as Octavia spoke up "Yeah, I hear you, all three have the tell-tale signs of being in love, it's only a matter of time." Octavia said pulling Mise close, relishing in the softness of the fur as Wave nodded with a warm smile.

"Mhmm, and I agree. It will only be a matter of time, we finally told him about the polygamy law a little after me and Mike started dating, he took some time to choose and he later said that if he felt the same way for someone and would talk to us that person would join in our family."

Wave had said as the two nodded with soft smiles. The three smiled softly as Mike and Angel soon walked towards them as Mike was going to speak up until someone bumped into him and walking past while someone soon came up.

"I am so very sorry, about that." The person had said, sounding very feminine under a furry hood soon turning towards the person that bumped into Mike "Tachiid! You can't just plow through like that!" The woman said as the man known as Tachiid turned towards the woman.

"What Kyusho? He was standing in the way, he should know that in this kind of hunt that standing idle will get him killed." He said huffy under his hood as the woman known as Kyusho sighed softly "I'm really sorry about my boyfriend… he's kind of a meanie at times when he's hungry or anxious." She had said as the group gently waved it off.

"It's fine, I'm Mike by the way, very nice to meet you." He said holding his hand out from under the cloak as Kyusho happily shook his hand "It's alright, but who are your friends? They seem really nice, and one looks like a baby Capricoat but with all white fur." Kyusho asked turning towards Mise and Octavia as Octavia giggled softly.

"We're new students here, I'm Octavia and this is my husband Mise, and don't worry about your boyfriend, Mise is a bit of a hardass too." Octavia said giggling as Mise put his hand up to speak but put his hand down and closed his mouth. Kyusho giggled softly as she gently turned to Angel "And I guess you are a new student as well?"

She asked smiling warmly under her hood as Angel nodded a little while Kyusho gently pulled down her hood to reveal she was a Hylotl with light blue skin and dark blue fins, with white underbelly as the fins on head looks kind like a ponytail with droopy ears on side of her head as she had a warm smile upon her face, she wore a brown fur lined jacket and was wearing a green kimono.

The group soon turned to Tachiid as he sighed softly and took his hood off to reveal he was a Floran that had grayish green skin with turquoise foliage, the leaves on his head were spiked backwards with amethyst purple eyes, as he was wearing what looked to be hunting gear while wearing dark grey Floran armor, "Yeah, I'm a Floran and Kyusho is a Hylotl and were dating, you have a problem with that?"

He asked as the group shook their heads as Mike spoke up "I'm dating both, does that count for something?" He asked under his bandana, making most of the group snicker as Kyusho walked over to Tachiid and gently kissed his cheek "Honey, calm down. Anyway it's really nice to meet all of you." Kyusho had said as Mise spoke up.

"Same to you two, hopefully next time we meet, none of us will be at each other's throats." Mise said as Kyusho nodded with a soft smile "I agree, Tachiid is just really on edge because of the next match." Kyusho had explained as the group nodded while Tachiid was eyeing Mike suspiciously while Mike turned to him.

"Can I help you?" He asked as Tachiid snarled "You think you're being cool? Thinking that you will be able to last out there?" He asked as Mike looked at him "Dude, what the fuck is your problem? I didn't do shit to you." Mike had said as Tachiid poked his chest.

"Yes you did, you got me and Kyusho eliminated many fucking times cause you can't fight worth shit, but then you think your a badass after nearly beating those two cheaters into dust and walking around with armor like that, while using that staff of yours?" Tachiid asked as Mike grabbed his hand and pushed it back into Tachiid.

"Listen buddy, I don't fucking know who you are, and I clearly don't give a fuck… but don't start fucking blaming me when it was first rounds in this competition." Mike had said as Tachiid was going to speak up Mise got between the two.

"Alright, that's enough out of both of you, Mike, you go over there and get ready for the fight, you need a clear head if we stand a chance, and you, get outta here before you get what's coming to you, I didn't snipe a whole team into oblivion with a pistol inside a prosthetic leg by sheer luck." Mise said with power in his voice, Tachiid sneered at this and walked away as Mike sighed softly and checked over his gear on a bench.

Kyusho gently sighed and turned to the group "I'm really sorry for Tachiid… He loses his anger really easily, I'm gonna go calm him down." Kyusho had said and walking over to Tachiid, trying to calm him down as Octavia gently sighed and nodded "It's fine, it's nothing we're not used to, hopefully things will settle after this tournament is over."

Octavia said as the some of the girls went to check on Mike. Mike was being kind of quiet as he was checking over his gear and ammo, gently mumbling as he loaded his revolver and placed it back into his holster.

"I got twenty rounds… that's only four reloads and i'm all outa shells, so this is going to be a close one." He mumbled softly as Angel and Mise gently nodded when they gently looked up to see a familiar Novakid walk up to them and gently sat down next to Mike "Pinchen the ammo carefully?" She asked as Mike turned to see Lucy and smiled softly.

"Yeah, kind of running low and I forgot to grab some more." He said with a soft chuckle as Lucy nodded "I hear ya, maybe this'll help." She had said reaching into her trench coat and took out a small leather ammo holder with six bullets in the divots that had light white tips and silver casings.

The group looked at this oddly as Lucy gently handed it to Mike "This was my Pa's, and he gave it to me for my rifle, I'm letting you borrow it for now since it would be a death sentence for us Novakids." She had said as this peaked Mise's interest.

"What do you mean by that?" Mise asked as he took a closer look at the rounds, Lucy smiled softly as she walked over to the light switches and turned off the lights, but a gentle purple glow emanated by the light switches as Lucy was giving off a pleasant light, gently glowing in the dark room soon switching the lights back on as Mise, Mike, Angel and Octavia were in awe as Octavia soon spoke up.

"What...the...fuck..? Mise, can you make any sense of this?" Octavia said dumbfounded as Mise shrugged "Uhhh, well bioluminescence is a very common feature in many species, especially in darker environments." Mise said taking a shot in the dark, as Lucy giggled softly.

"Kind ah, we Novakid since we are like stars can glow in the dark, it's really crazy. And what you just described was a bioluminescent field, as it normally grows on frozen planets." Lucy explained as the three nodded a bit in a 'Ahhh' fashion. Mike on the other hand knew about this and smiled softly.

"They are very beautiful but can be dangerous." He explained as Mise, Octavia and Angel looked at him "How do you know that?" Octavia asked as Mike explained "Me and Wave went there about three months ago on a field trip to a Midnight planet, it's one of the places that have it, it's also where I got this." He said summoning his shotgun from his bracelet and setting it on his lap.

The group nodded a bit as Mike put his shotgun back into his bracelet as he continued to speak "The fields seem to have only one type of creature, a Angler if you will that lures prey with it's light, but also has little cute little creatures of glowing orbs that are very friendly." Mike had said smiling softly towards the three.

The three nodded with soft smiles forming as Lucy gently sat back in her seat while Mise spoke up with intrigue in his voice "Interesting, so, is that Angler anything like an Angler Fish that you see in the midnight zone of the ocean? Are those glowing orbs anything like fire flies?" Mise asked while Mike shrugged.

"It's kind of hard to explain, but in a way yes and no, they are like the fish but walk on two legs have four fangs and are big as hell. And the glowing orbs are like fire flies except a little bigger, but are very friendly." Mike explained as he smiled softly "Some of the students were catching them in jars and using them as lanterns, it was pretty fun. Though as well me and Wave shot an Anglure to death and had to sleep in it for the night, since we were so far away from town… hell of a thing to explain the next morning." He said smiling a bit as Lucy giggled.

The group snickered softly as Lucy soon remembered something "That reminds me, I wanted to lend you this." Lucy said getting her rifle out of her bracelet and gently handed it to Mike "Here, it's already loaded so be careful out there, alright?" She asked as Mike gently nodded and took the gun, soon looking through the scope down at the door and gently bringing his head back.

"The weight is good, and has a great scope attached, very nice Lucy. I thank you for lending me your rifle." Mike had said with a soft smile, making Lucy smile with a soft blush. Mise and Octavia smiled knowing smiles as Angel giggled very softly, while Mike soon looped the bullet holder into his belt, sitting right next to his ammo pouches as he slung the rifle over his shoulder and got up with the rest of the group walking towards the doors with the group.

Lucy gently waved goodbye and walked out of the room while Tachiid and Kyusho stood near the doors as Kyusho smiled softly "Good luck." She had said putting her hood up as Tachiid sneered and put his on "Yeah… Good luck…" He sneered softly.

The group just sighed softly as the familiar countdown started to play with each second counting away slowly, soon hitting zero the familiar screeching of metal began to be heard as the doors slowly opened as a rush of cold air soon cascaded over the group making them flinch softly as snow slowly drifted into the ready room with the group slowly looking out into the arena.

The arena was covered in a snowy tundra as it was snowing heavily, as that surrounded the area looked to be large trees with snow white wood that was growing with what looked to be very large frozen spiked spheres with the wood wrapping around them on many branches, there were large crystals growing around the area and the trees, while in the distance what looked to be multiple glowing lights that faintly glowed.

The group slowly walked out of the ready room as Mise gently whistled at the area "Damn, I haven't seen weather like this since I took a week long trek through the frozen north of Russia, nearly froze my nuts off." Mise said as he adjusted his hat and readied his weapon.

The group snickered softly at this as Mike spoke up "I hear you, you try trekking through this shit, but also with just a flashlight and it was pitch fucking black, you feel like you're going to fall off the face of damn the planet or heading into Silent Hill." Mike had said adjusting the rifle over his shoulder and tightening his cloak, Kyusho giggled softly hearing this.

"You four are funny, I thought Remaie and her older sister Vanessa were the only ones that saw some crazy stuff from different planets." She had said as Tachiid sneered softly "That is all just a waste of time, I rather spend my time in nature and relaxing by a lake." Tachiid had said while the five gently sighed as Octavia gently adjusted her hood and shivered softly with a soft breath and some cold vapor formed.

"Jeez, you weren't exaggerating when you said it was arctic cold, and Mise, when and why did you trek through Siberia?" She asked as Mise spoke up through the heavy layer of fur covering his face "I trained with Cossacks a few years ago, but the only way to get out there is a couple days by snowmobile or a week by foot." Mise said as he started humming a tune. The group slowly turned towards Mise as Angel spoke up.

"T-That's insane…" She had said as Mike nodded in agreement, when the announcers soon spoke up "Welcome everybody to the fourth annual day of the school wars!" The announcers had said as the crowd cheered, soon calming down as the announcers spoke up.

"Alright now, you all know the rules. Take out the other team and watch out for traps, however these last two days have a bigger twist. Since you are all in the tundra based arenas things will get more harder than the last three days, these last two will have much tougher challenges including finding relics while added on top of fighting the other team." One of the announcers had said as the group looked towards the announcers as Octavia gently spoke up.

"Well that's just great...any idea what he's talking about?" Octavia said as Mise shook his head and pulled his face cover back up while Kyusho spoke up.

"He means is of an old artifact from before the wars, an example is a Hylotl emblem, it's a small blue pin with three red crystals, like the eyes of a Hylotl." She had explained as Tachiid spoke up "Just try to find something old and looks like something that belongs to one of the races, you will have an easier time that way." He explained in a frustrated tone with the group nodding.

Both teams waited, and waited with the ticking of the clock slowly chiming when the horns soon blew loudly making the teams starting to quickly treck through the snow as the group stayed close to each other, while Tachiid soon took Kyusho and treking in a different location as Octavia spoke up towards Mike, Mise and Angel.

"We need to find some kind of cover, whether it be a fallen tree or rock formation, Angel you stick with me and we'll try to keep an eye out for those artifacts.

Mise, you and Mike try to set up a base point and basically do what we did last time." Octavia said as Mise nodded and quickly scaled a nearby tree while Mike kept an eye out for a potential point of operations, slinging the rifle off his shoulder and gently kneels into the soft snow, looking down the sights.

Angel nodded a little as she followed Octavia "A-Are you sure they are going to be okay? I… I really worry for Mike…" Angel had said as small smile slowly formed upon Octavia's face as she nodded, gently turning towards Angel "I don't know nor care where Mise and Mike stand as far as student ranking but based on what I know and what I've seen, there's very few others I'd trust more, I have full confidence in both of them."

Octavia said smiling as Angel smiled softly and nodded "A-Alright, thank you Octavia… I-I just worry about Mike sometimes… ever since we were in school I always saw him getting into fights and it just still makes me worry at times…" Angel had said with her smile while Octavia nodded.

"I understand how you feel, even months after I started dating Mise, I still feared that his past would catch up with him and take him or someone else away from me, whether it be his fault or otherwise."

Octavia said as she thought back to Canterlot, with Angel gently nodding in understanding. Back with Mise and Mike, Mise soon jumped off the tree branch nearly knocking a large spiked ice sphere nearly stumbling as Mike turned towards him.

"You alright man?" He asked as Mise nodded a bit "Yeah i'm good, I meant to jump to the next tree but the branch was coated in too much ice." Mise said dusting himself off as Mike nodded "I hear you man, glad you're alright. Anyway, I saw Tachiid and Kyusho running towards what looked to be huts or even abandoned ones I have no idea." Mike had said to Mise gently nodded placing his hand on his chin with his arm under his other arm in thought.

"I say let's follow behind but hold back 100 yards, if the other team has the same idea as we do, there's a good chance they're already there and we'll walking to an ambush, we'll use Tachiid and Kyusho as cannon fodder if they are there and we'll have a stand off from the snow dunes to the east and the trees to the west." Mise said drawing a plan in the snow with a stick as Mike gently nodded.

"Alright… though I don't feel right for doing that to them… I can warn them ahead of time if it will help the plan… cause if we have more people on hand, it would help our chances when the attack happens." Mike explained with Mise thinking and setting the stick into the snow.

"They only be cannon fodder if the other team is there, hence why they'll go first but we'll be close enough to provide back up but not get hit as easily if they are. Besides, they signed their death warrants when they decide to stray from the team, I do feel bad but Kyusho didn't have to follow her boyfriend like that…" Mise said as looking in the pair's direction while Mike nodded.

"Alright, but promise me we are going to keep their asses safe…. I ain't losing anybody… I made that promise the day after I took my first life… that I won't let anyone get hurt… And I don't care if it's just false combat, or real combat I gave a promise that I will follow." Mike had said placing the rifle over his shoulder, looking towards the couple's direction as Mise slowly nodded and patted his shoulder.

"I promise the only casualties will be suffered by the other team- wait, that's it! Quick, Mike what was the setup of those huts, what style were they, and what was the arrangement like?" Mise said erasing his earlier plan as Mike began to think "They looked like… tribal huts, like something you would probably find in maybe… like Africa I guess or somewhere rural, they looked to be close to each other, looked to be made into the mountains and they looked to be mostly snow."

Mike had explained as Mise nodded a bit and started to draw up a new plan "Okay, new plan, we run ahead and warn those two, those huts most likely have no windows and one entrance, so if we do this right, we can use sneak into camp and raid it, using the snow and our close as cover." Mise said as Mike nodded.

"Alright, that sounds very reasonable, and could work very well… kind of reminds me when I first went into my first round. I used my jacket to lure a sniper out, I took him out after that with my shotgun." Mike explained as Mise smiled and nodded getting up from the snowy ground.

"Clever, I used to throw my voice and impersonate british field officers to lure soldiers into ambushes." Mise said as he demonstrated it "Oh come out ya fenian bastard!" he shouted but not loud enough to give away their position, making Mike chuckle softly.

"That's pretty clever man, but also very creative." Mike had said soon clearing his throat "Alright, so we just run in there and try to lure them out somehow or what? Cause I am surprised no one has flipped a trap yet… though it makes me question… where are the traps?" Mike had asked as Mise started to question this but soon waved it off as he began to trek towards the area where their plan was going to take place.

"With an environment like this, with a school setting as such, id say mostly snare strap, pit falls, and simple physics based ones, nothin a long stick can't protect from. But yes and no, first we have to get those to two before they reach the huts then we'll rendezvous with Angel and Octy, the we'll launch a surprise attack, plus I have a trick up my sleeve that'll add to our chances of winning, but it's perfectly legal, so don't worry." Mise said as he picked up his pace.

Mike nodded as he picked up the pace behind Mise and nodding "A-Alright, cause we have been doing all this by the books, I don't need any of us getting disqualified… also I think after this we should talk to the headmasters… something is getting really suspicious around here man… I ain't liking it…" Mike said gently breathing softly trying to keep himself calm of the thoughts of it while Mise nodded in agreement.

"I understand, I have an idea that's just crazy enough to work and only requires my mouth. And yeah, Xeno told me and Octy earlier, that's why I wanted to talk to them myself." Mise said while Mike nodded "I hear you, but all of us are talking to them man… we were able to figure out something was wrong with our teacher, we are helping you also man. More heads is better than one, cause we can all keep an eye out for crazy shit going on." Mike had explained while Mise gently nodded in agreement but also of understatement.

"I hear you man, plus with you guy's keen eye for detail like that and my past experience with espionage and underground activities, we'll get to the bottom of this in no time." Mise said with a confidant smile while Mike nodded.

"That's good to hear, though that's a lot different from your character in the movies… but I guess they have to censor a lot, but anyway yeah man. How it all started is when Me and Wave went on a field trip, and the next thing we know a lot more darker shit started to turn up… that's the scary part at times… we feel something is not going right around here… we feel like one of the school's is doing it…" Mike had said as Mise slowly stopped his treck and turned to Mike with a confused but interested look.

"Why do I get the feeling that these schools are like Crystal Prep, and they're by people like Cinch?" Mise said, knowing Mike's knowledge of Canterlot while Mike gently shrugged "I have no idea man… but I'm starting to get that same feeling as well… Case and point, was the final round of the first day of the school wars… This happened…" He said slowly pulling back his sleeve on his right arm, showing a large burn mark upon his right wrist.

Mise's eyes slowly went wide "Damn dude, was one of your opponents Prince Zuko from Avatar?" Mise said looking closely at the burn as Mike chuckled softly "Na man… though that made me feel a little better, but no… One of the students from I think the Academy of Galactic Warriors was using an over electrified whip, nearly could fry a person if the voltage was increased… I was a lucky one really…" He said pulling his sleeve back up and continued to speak.

"That is one way that is considered cheating in this competition… including using higher powered weapons, equipment, and anything dangerous…" Mike had warned towards Mise, making him nod while Mike trekked past Mise with the rifle on his shoulders.

Mise slowly turned towards Mike and began to follow behind, slowly thinking to himself 'Note to self...stock up on small arms.' Mise said in his head while Mike was talking to himself, however through his eyes he was talking to the manifestation of the beast that was trekking next to him.

"Listen to me kid, something ain't right around here… the students that got knocked out, or even incapacitated were taken out by unnormal means… almost like a nerve agent or something… you remember what Xeno had said to you, you need to keep your head level out here and keep an eye out." The beast had uttered to Mike with him slowly nodding.

"I know that… something isn't right around this school… it's more crazier than normal… I don't get why though… I can understand why taking them out to hinder the school… but why just them and not the second best, or even skilled fighters? It makes absolutely no sense…" Mike had said with the beast nodding. "I hear you… It's quite the puzzle if you ask me…" The beast said, soon smiling "Plus also I know you're happy Angel is here now." He had said, making Mike blush under his bandana.

"S-Shut up man… I-I was worried about her…" Mike said as the beast chuckled madly "I know that face, you really like her. But not only her, but also Moon… Oh man, I still remember those day dreams you had of the two of you in a meadow, Christ man, just tell Moon how you feel then kiss." The beast had said as Mike turned to him.

"Why do you care so much?" He asked as the beast smiled softly "I live in your head jackass, what else am I supposed to do with my time? All I can do is plan shit, fuck with your head, look through your memories like a large volume of anime and plan to take over, that's all I really want to do." He said as in his head he spoke differently.

'But that also, I worry for you brother… something is very suspicious around this school… It's making me more worried… we may have had our differences in the past… but his caring side is fucking infectious.' He thought to himself as Mike sighed softly.

"You're fucking crazy, you know that? Anyway I better get a move on, and you stop looking through my memories… if you need to just try to find Anime's I memorized or some shit…" Mike muttered as The beast gave a mock salute.

"Aye, aye captain cranky ass…" He said with a smile and slowly faded away while unknown to Mike, Mise was watching on as he slowly thought to himself 'He's either talking to a hallucination or a voice(s) in his head...either way, it seems to be on the same playing field as him, almost as if it knows everything he does...like a second him…' Mise said making a mental note for later.

The two kept trekking through the snow as Mike nearly tripped over something, feeling something nearly taking his shoe in some kind of suction grip "W-What the hell?" He mumbled softly as Mise helped him up from the ground.

"Woah, you okay there man? You took a helluva spill there." Mise said as Mike got back up on his feet as he nodded "Y-Yeah, man… felt like something grabbed my fucking shoe man… it was strange…" He said slowly looking towards where he tripped to find something that was semi shiny and liquid based that looked to be a pine green "Dude… check this out…" Mike had said as Mise walked over and looked at it also.

"Okay, i'm no scientist but i'm pretty sure there shouldn't be a random puddle of green slime just sitting in the snow like that….you don't think it has to do with the recent acts of sabotage, do you?" Mise said dipping his fingers in the mysterious substance finding it to be oddly sticky.

Mike slowly shrugged until the slime began to move and groan softly as Mise retracted his fingers as Mike spoke up "D-Dude that shit just moved…" He had said as Mise nodded and backing up "I know, and that is definitely put there deliberately or is a product of something else that wasn't supposed to be here, because this highly controlled warzone, why would they add living creatures other than us to this place?"

Mise said as he started piecing things together as the puddle of slime slowly began to rise from the snow as it was the form of a person, with a large glob of dark violet that was formed in large flowing hair that flowed down their back, gently curling at the bottom as they were wearing what could be said was a light brown hoodie and dark black pants.

The person gently stretched and yawned softly slowly looking around as Mise and Mike saw that the person was a woman, with sapphire blue eyes that gently shined and what looked to be a C-cup bust as she soon gently spoke in a sweet, yet gentle tone that made Mise remember of his friend Fluttershy.

"W-What…? W-Where am I…?" The girl asked as Mike gently sat next to her "E-Excuse me… Miss?" He asked with her slowly turning to Mike "Y-Yes?" She had asked Mike "Alright, can you please answer me, why were you sleeping in the middle of a snowy area?" He asked while the girl gently sat up and gently put her light green shoes on.

"I-I was with my team, and we were exploring the ruins, we couldn't find anything that the announcers were looking for… so we decided to move onto the next area, I started to get very sleepy and I… I must have accidentally fallen asleep here in the snow." She had said in her tone.

Mike gently nodded at this while Mise chuckled softly and spoke in his head 'Holy shit, it's like talking to Flutters, crazy…' Mise said as he noticed her starting to shiver violently as he reluctantly took off his cloak and gave it to the girl "Here. You need this more than I do right now."

Mise said with a smile as she gently took it and wrapped it around herself "T-Thank you… W-We Slime maybe able to survive in really cold climates… B-But it doesn't mean we can't get cold ourselves…" She had said as Mike nodded "We hear you… Can you tell us your name?" Mike asked with the girl gently nodding.

"O-Of course… I… I'm Terra…" The girl now known as Terra said with Mike and Mise smiling softly "Alright, Terra I'm Mike and this is Mise." Mike had said motioning to Mise with him giving a soft smile and a gentle wave, as Terra gently waved back.

"I-It's nice to meet both of you…" She had said in her gentle tone while Mike gently held his hand out towards Terra, making her blush very softly with a darker green slowly form upon her cheeks slowly taking his hand as she got up while Mise on the other hand looked towards where she was to find a dark wooden sword that looked very wavy and a dark green shield made of slime, making him look at it oddly but slowly pick them items up from the ground.

"Terra, I think you dropped your sword and shield." Mise said bringing the items to her and Mike as Terra gently smacked her forehead "S-Sorry, I am such a ditz at times. T-Thank you Mise." She had said gently taking the items and strapping her shield to her right arm while placing the sword in it's scabbard on her waist while the two gently waved it off.

"It happens, I remember one time I forgot to bring my bag to class and it had all my homework in it, it made me feel so stupid." Mike had said, making Terra giggle softly. Mise smiled softly at this as the three soon started to walk towards the huts again as Mike gently placed his hand to the side of his helmet.

"Alright, we are almost near the huts… Alright… Alright got you, Octavia… Alright we will meet you there." Mike had said as Mise gently turned towards him "What did she say? What's their position?" Mise asked as he pulled his pistol from his boot as Mike turned to him.

"They said they took position behind a few fallen ice trees, said they looked to be knocked down by someone. But also that Tachiid and Kyusho are pinned down in one of the huts, we better move fast." Mike had said taking the rifle off his shoulders while Mise nodded and followed behind as Terra gently followed close to them with a worried look upon her face.

Angel and Octavia were hiding behind the fallen trees as Angel slowly looked over one of the trees and looking into the huts as a large amount of the opposite team were arguing, while Tachiid and Kyusho were slowly sneaking out of the other hut as Octavia slowly looked up and waved them over.

The two quickly vaulted over the trees as Octavia spoke up "Okay, we need to stay here, Mise and Mike are on their way here, once they arrive then we will move forward with whatever plan they came up with, we can't take on the other team without them." Octavia said as Angel nodded in agreement while Kyusho nodded with a soft smile, and Tachiid sighing.

"Alright… but that jackass better not get our asses eliminated because of something stupid…" He sneered as Octavia sighed and turned towards Tachiid with annoyance "Okay, look, I don't know what crawled up your ass and died or what you have against Mike, but that 'jackass' makes up 1 half of the only thing we have to be able to win, so what you just said goes equal for yourself and Mise, we're all in this together so we need act accordingly." Octavia said sternly as Tachiid was going to speak again, but soon sneered and sighed

"Fine… I will, but if he tries anything…. It's on your head." He said with Octavia gently nodding while Angel kept watching on "I-I hope we can get through this soon… T-This is getting really scary…" Angel had said keeping a hold of her gun. Octavia gently placed her hand on Angel's shoulder and began to console her "Don't worry darling, this'll be all over soon, trust me. And next time you are ever in a dark or dreary looking situation, remember that night is darkest just before the dawn." Octavia said in soft, almost motherly tone.

Angel gently sighed with a soft smile "T-Thank you Octavia… T-That makes me feel a little better…" Angel had said making Octavia smile softly and gently patted her shoulder "Good to hear Angel, hopefully the boys will be here soon and we can finish the match." Octavia said looking around for Mike and Mise. Angel nodded softly as she slowly slumped against the fallen tree as Tachiid gently sighed while Kyusho saw something in the distance.

"Hey! I think I see Mike and Mise." Kyusho had said with the three turning towards the direction she was talking about to soon find two familiar figures walking towards them, however what took their surprise was a third one of a unfamiliar looking girl to the group.

Mike, Mise and Terra walked towards the group as they quickly slid into the trees with Mike speaking up "Evening, morning or whatever hell time it is right now, how you all doing?" Mike asked as Angel smiled softly and pulled him in a hug as Mise sat next to Octavia "Hey sweetie, how you guy's holding up?" Mise asked a Octavia smiled and kissed Mise.

"We've been better but we've also been worse, how bout you guys? Oh, hello, who are you?" Octavia said as she glanced over at Terra "I-I'm Terra… M-Mise and M-Mike found me asleep in the snow…" She had said a little embarrassed as Tachiid sneered softly "Well it was your own fault… and you two, what the hell was so smart of bringing one of our opponents over here, she could tell them where we are and have us all eliminated."

Tachiid had sneered at Mike and Mise, while Mike turned to him and gently let go of Angel "Well excuse me if we just accidently stumbled upon her but also have the heart to care for people…" Mike had said as Tachiid was going to retort until Kyusho stopped him "Please… stop… Alright, they did what they thought was right, you can't stop them now…" Kyusho had said making Tachiid sigh, quieting up as Mise turned to Kyusho.

"In his defense, he does technically have a point, but one that I can prove to be invalid. If Terra was acting as bait she would have alerted her team by now or attempted to take me and/or Mike out by now, she had every opportunity to too, but she didn't….that is enough for me to trust her." Mise said as Octavia spoke up "Well if Mise says she comes in peace then I believe him and her." She said as Mike nodded.

"Yeah, she didn't try anything to us. I know a lot who would have done that, but she didn't… that gains my respect as well." Mike had said as Terra smiled softly. Tachiid sighed softly and nodded while Kyusho smiled softly "Well, if you all trust her then I do as well, friends are the best thing you can have around here."

Kyusho had said while Terra nodded "I-I agree… T-That's what my sister says… well step sister tells me… Y-You know, Mise… Y-You kind of remind me of this person she told me about, he kind of looks like you except she said his eyes change and wears makeshift armor." Terra said as Mise smiled softly "Really now? And who might your step-sister be?" Mise asked curiously as Terra giggled softly and nodded.

"Mhmm, as well her name is Stormy, she's a Lamia. Her dad married my mom when I was at a young age, we been a family for about… almost twelve years now, but I think of her as a big sister and our dad as my dad." Terra said with a soft smile forming.

Mise and Octavia smiled knowing smiles as Octavia spoke up "Now where have we heard that name before...? Mike, any ideas?" Octavia said glancing over at Mike as he started to think "You know, I think I have, I might have bumped into her when I was in the fair, she was really kind." Mike had said as Terra nodded.

"Yeah, she said she bumped into someone in the fair as well… he had hoverbike armor and he was something called a human, he had obsidian black hair, light blue eyes and lightly tan skin and said was in the School wars. But also that he beat two cheaters of our school with each other, it was pretty crazy." Terra had said with a soft smile slowly forming "She said she was really happy to make a friend here."

She said with Mise smiling softly and turned to Mike then back at Terra "You wanna tell her Mike, or should I? Because if she's anything like stormy I think we figured out why Terra became our ally and didn't eliminate us." Mise said as Mike chuckled softly "Mhmm, as well I think so as well." Mike had said soon turning to Terra as he gently unstrapped his helmet and took it off, pulling his bandana down as Terra gently gasped.

"Y-You're…" She tried to speak as Mike nodded with a soft smile "Mhmm, I'm the guy Stormy was talking about. And I can guess you're not a fighter like your sister, am I right?" He asked with Terra gently nodding.

Mike smiled softly as he pulled his bandana back up and put his helmet back on "Anyway, we can talk more after this round, now… everyone ready?" Mike asked as the group nodded while Mise began to explain the plan.

"Alright, thanks to our eye in the sky, Mike, we know that the other team is clustered around the set of tribal style snow cabins, almost like igloos. These structures have only one window which also functions as it's only door, so with that being said, we can easily encircle the encampment, and launch a surprise ambush on them and take them out in one fell swoop, any questions?" Mise said as he drew up the battle plans in the snow with a stick as the group shook their heads, indicating no questions as Mike turned to Terra.

"Terra, this may seem like a lot but we need you to stay back, alright?" Mike asked as she gently nodded a bit while the group started to move, leaving Terra to watch from the fallen ice trees as the group slowly trekked towards the snow cabins where they could hear voices "Kluex damn it! We can't find fucking anything in here, plus I think those bastards took the artifact we had!" A male Avian had said slamming a table into the ground as a female Munarii spoke up.

"Calm down, jeez… Fuck man, you're acting worse than Terra was during the first rounds." The woman said with this catching the group's attention as Mike whispered to the group "You guys hear that?" Mike whispered as Octavia nodded and whispered back "Yeah, it sounds like the other team, let's listen see what they say next." Octavia said as the group continued to eavesdrop as Terra spoke in her head.

'W-What does she mean? I-I didn't do anything wrong… D-Did I...?' Terra thought to herself when a male Floran spoke up "Oh fuck I still remember that, she was hiding, whining and crying behind cover 'Why do we have to fight? Can't we ask them nicely not to fight? Can I please just go sit with my sister Stormy?' holy hell, she would never shut the fuck up about it… I'm glad we made that small camp and told her to stay there… she's still probably sleeping in that snow, where she won't be found." The guy had said.

This struck the group like a knife, but not any worse than Terra, with tears starting to form in her eyes gently weeping into her hands as Octavia gently whispered to Mise "I can't believe they would do such a horrible and potentially lethal thing." She said as she tried to console Terra as Mise turned to Mike "They say you must strike when the iron is hot, well my friend, the iron is so hot it's melting. And I have the perfect idea to win this match and give Terra a chance to get back at her team." Mise with a cocky grin.

Mike turned to Mise as he looked to have no emotion in his eyes "I hear you… And I have to say, please tell soon… cause I am using every fiber of my being not to rip them apart already…" Mike had said in a serious tone as Mise nodded with his grin and brought the group back behind the fallen trees as Octavia was still consoling a crying Terra as Mise began to explain the idea.

"Okay, it's basically an extra step in our original plan. After we infiltrate their camp, we form a smaller crescent shape up on a portion of high ground right across from the door, Terra then goes to her team and tells them that she has found us, of course they don't believe her so she convinces them to follow her, and leads them right into the line of fire as she ducks behind this rock here." Mise said making marks and lines in the snow as Terra slowly stopped crying and gently sniffled "I… I don't know if I can do that… T-That sounds so mean…" Terra had said as Mike turned to her "Including trying to get you killed by staying in the cold?"

He asked making Terra slowly quiet up as Mike gently sighed "I'm not saying as I am demeaning you… I mean by is that these people aren't good to be around, you can't stay around these people or even being forced to fight." Mike had said as Terra gently brought her knees to her chest, gently wrapping her arms around her legs as Octavia gently placed her hand on Terra's shoulder.

"Who would you rather be with? those that leave you in the cold to die even though you were their team mate or those that literally gave you clothes off their back after just meeting you?" Octavia said with Terra slowly turning to the group and sniffled softly "I… I… I will do it… Y-You are all right… T-Thank you..." Terra said with a soft smile, making the group smile softly as Mise nodded "In our group, friends are like family and family means, no gets left behind, but at the same we're always accepting new members." Mise said smiling as Kyusho nodded.

"Mhmm, and that's a good concept that a lot of us live by, even Tachiid when he's not being such a grump, he's a really nice guy and cares about people close to him." Kyusho had said as Tachiid grumbled softly and looked away while Mike nodded "Octavia is right, we are all like a family to each other, and we all look after each other while keeping each other safe." Mike had said with the group nodding.

Terra smiled softly and nodded gently while Angel spoke up "It's very true, I only just joined their family just yesterday but I have to say it's a great and crazy family." Angel had said while Mise chuckled softly and nodded.

"Yeah, me and Octy crash landed into this very spot in a rocket less than 2 days ago and we were welcomed with open arms, granted we had prior encounters with Mike and the girls but still." Mise said smiling with the girls and Mike chuckling softly and nodding, while Mike gently placed his hand on Terra's other shoulder.

"Yeah, so don't think you don't have friends around here. Cause you got a large group of them close by, and we want you to remember that." Mike had said as Terra nodded soon slowly getting up with a warm smile slowly forming upon her face "T-Thank you… A-All of you… I-I think i'm ready." She said as the group nodded with Tachiid "Are you sure?" He asked with Terra nodded "I-I'm sure."

Terra said with the group getting up while Mise spoke up "Okay, everyone remember the plan?" Mise asked the group in nodded in confirmation as he spoke up again "Good, now move into position, on the double." Mise said as he stealthily and quietly dashed through the snow as the rest of the group except Terra followed suit.

Terra slowly started to trek through the snow, slowly walking towards the huts while hearing her team arguing over something stupid but she pushed the thoughts to the back of her head slowly entering the hut "I keep telling you, we should just hunt the fuckers down… It make things so much easier…." The Avian said as the Floran shook his head while the female Feline and male Slime were sitting down on chairs playing cards, and a female Apex was looking over a map with the Munarii when Terra gently cleared her throat, gaining the attention of the group.

"Well, look who finally decided to wake up." The Avian said while the Floran punched him upside the head "There you are Terra, glad to finally see you awake." He had said with a false smile. Terra gently looked them over soon speaking "I found them…" She said, lying through her teeth as this gained their attention "W-What did you say?" The Munarii asked as she said it again "I found them, they are hiding behind a bunch of fallen trees."

Terra had said as the Slime clapped his hands "Perfect! Now we can finally end this fucking match." He said as the Apex smiled softly "Good work Terra, show us where they are and we will take care of it all." She said while the Avian spoke "Guess someone has earned a hot meal tonight." He had said as the team grabbed their gear and started to trek outside as the Avian pushed her out of the way.

Terra felt the cold of the snow upon herself, slowly getting up and walking in front of her team, leading them through the snow and getting close to the fallen trees but soon slowly stopped to the much confusion of the team "Why are we stopping? Aren't they over there or not?"

The Floran asked as Terra nodded slowly trekking out of their way, letting her team getting over to the trees but to discover the area was empty "What the…? Where the hell is the other team?" The Apex asked while the Feline sneered at Terra "Where are they Terra? You said they would be here, where the fuck are they!?"

She asked with anger seeping into her words, as all she gave was a soft, yet wicked smirk when a soft whistle was heard from behind making the other team freeze in fear slowly turning to find the other team above them in the snow, weapons at the ready as Mike gently spoke up "You found us… Or in better sense… we found you." He said with his rifle held up.

The other team was frozen with fear as Mike was the first to attack, soon gently spinning the rifle forward and holding it out as he fired one round off into the Floran's chest, knocking him back as the group soon opened fire while Terra quickly hid behind cover as the group fired off round after round, shooting each member of the opposite team down.

Terra soon called out in surrender as the horns soon blew in victory as Terra got up from her spot and smiled happily "It worked guys!" She said happily, while the other team groaned in pain while Mise spoke up "Let this be a lesson to you. Im sure the headmasters will love to hear how you left your team mate behind asleep in sub zero temperatures, we heard what you said about Terra, we hear it all…"

Mise said as he spit at their feet, but hit the ground instead. The group started to walk away as Mike stood behind, with Mise going to speak to him but kept quiet as they watched him walk over to each member of the other team, soon giving a good stomp on their backs or placed a good kick in their sides.

"Remember this lesson… you think you can get ahead in life by just treating people like shit… it will always come and bite you in the ass…. Maybe even put you in an early grave…" He had uttered soon turning away and walking past the group with the group in tow, reluctant to speak as Octavia spoke up.

"You know, I don't think anyone here would have intervened or punished you if you or Mise gave them an eye for eye, if you catch my drift, but I speak for most of us when I say my respect for both of you deepened when you walked away from that chance." Octavia said as she huddled under Mise's jacket with him while Mike gently kept quiet, but soon let out a gentle sigh.

"I know what you mean Octavia… half of me said rip them apart for what they did to Terra… the other half said not to do it, that ain't you… I… I just listened to what my heart said really on the whole thing…" Mike had said walking with the group into the ready room as Stormy was waiting there soon pulling the group into a group hug with her tail.

"T-Thank you… Thank you so much for keeping my little sister safe…" She had said with the group hugging Stormy back, soon breaking the hug as Stormy pulled Terra into a warm hug "Y-You had me worried sis… I… I was afraid I was going to lose you…" She had said with tears starting to form in her eyes.

Terra smiled softly and hugged Stormy back "It's alright sis, our friends saved me out there… they kept me safe…" She said hugging Stormy, making the group smile warmly soon watching the two gently breaking the hug with the girls soon joining the group, and exchanging greetings when Izzy's stomach gently growled making the group snicker softly with Mike soon speaking up.

"Sounds like someone is hungry… speaking of which i'm getting kind of hungry as well, who want's food?" Mike offered as the group nodded and spoke in agreement soon walking out of the ready room, however unknown to them a lone figure watched on soon smiling "Soon… Soon he will know what it's like to take everything from me…" The figure said soon cackling and walking off down the hall and out of the arena.