Chapter 21: New Plans

God I have a lot more building than I originally thought; this will take a while to get out so it still makes sense.

LunaClefairy: yes, Phantom is here along with other character equivalent, even if you won't see much of them. And Subaru and Misora; pointless fluff that will grow eventually.

Matteso585: Just think about who Gemini is and the cannon anime and it should be obvious.

Ngray651: Subaru doesn't want to know because he doesn't want to not trust War-Rock and thus not be able to be easier to defeat (along with the fact that War-Rock wouldn't have told him everything anyway). There's a lot at stake. And why War-Rock doesn't just flat out tell the truth of what happened to his father will be told later; it's a tad bit more complicated in my version.

Marche: I'm not, though I do wonder why you keep posting that on various fanfictions.

o-o: You have a lot of foresight because things will become very complex very soon. Phantom's from the Zero series and I only go to a character's POV if they have something that needs to be shown.

"Get back here!"

"Then why don't you catch me already, aren't you supposed to be fast?"

Tamotsu growled and launched himself at the orange-haired boy before him using his speed to his advantage. He really would've caught the smaller boy if Hiroki hadn't turned himself invisible at that exact moment and literally slipped through his fingers. Tamotsu caught himself before he could fall and glared as he felt his fingers just brush the slippery edge of armor.

"Tamotsu," Zero tried only to be ignored.

"You're so slow~" Hiroki teased from where he'd reappeared on an adjacent Wave Road. It was a complete lie but it definitely succeeded in further enraging the blond.

"Tamotsu," Zero tried again with roughly the same results.

The blond in question ignored the unamused tone Zero was using and leapt so he was on a closer Wave Road. Using a connecting pathway he managed to get in front of Hiroki even if it wouldn't do much. He was proved a second later as the navy armored boy waved before zipping down the Wave Road in the opposite direction as fast as he could.

Tamotsu followed knowing he could catch up quickly since he really was faster. If Hiroki wasn't so good at dodging and didn't have those jets along with his temporary invisibility then he'd have been caught long ago.

Zero just sighed and wished his partner didn't take so much offence to people making fun of his hair. It was ridiculously long and served absolutely no purpose other than to 'look pretty' and Tamotsu was extremely lucky that the Denpa surrounding it prevented it from being caught on anything.

Hiroki suddenly turned sharply off the Wave Road just as Tamotsu was nearly on the boy, the jets activating and propelling him towards a faraway Wave Road that Tamotsu had no hope of reaching. Stumbling a bit, Hiroki turned around and waved at Tamotsu happily, ignoring the glare he was receiving.

"…Weren't we just going to find Axl Trigger and talk to him," Zero said calmly despite the frustration he was feeling, "And not chase after him and make a fool of yourself?"

"Hey, he started running from us so don't blame me!" Tamotsu snapped.

Hiroki just watched with a smirk as the blond continued to argue with his FM partner. As much as he'd like to go talk to, well, any of the others, Axl seemed to have other ideas. Unless it was necessary he did not want to go near another FM life form even if they were bound to another human. Hiroki was good at countering Axl's natural fears but even he had a limit.

Hiroki absently ran a finger over where the visor parted and felt the slightly uneven surface of the temporary scare he now sported. Why the scar on Axl's chest ended up on his face he still didn't know but since it didn't leave a mark afterwards did it really matter?

Hiroki just gave the bickering pair (even if he could only hear one side of the conversation) one last look before taking off. It'd take a while to be found again, especially with Axl keeping a look out now.

"Thank you for your time, Mr. Gorida," The woman before him said; adjusting the bun in her hair again even though it was still perfect before walking out. Her broad shouldered partner (who looked more like a linebacker than a government worker) nodded before following out behind her.

Gorida waited a good thirty seconds to make sure that they weren't about to double back on hi before he finally let the plastered-on smile slip off. He knew it was only a matter of time before the national government finally got itself off its sorry ass and decided to start taking measures to at least attempt something. Oh sure it had been providing all but bottomless funding for city repairs and weapon development but beyond that?

Nothing.

Well now Gorida found himself seriously wishing they'd stay out now, a far cry from his opinion only a month or so before. As horrible as it was to acknowledge that they were now relying on children to stop intergalactic enemies, it worked. The four children had yet to truly lose a fight; the worse only being when the FM life forms got away with their hosts. Not to mention that the public absolutely loved them, eating up anything that was related to them. The extremely positive relationship with the public more or less made them untouchable now.

But apparently Gemini Spark's combined attack was more disturbing that he'd thought.

Gemini White had outright attacked a completely innocent civilian, taking a sick pleasure in making it as grisly as possible so the effect lasted, which it did. In the end he was still defeated but that didn't change the shock the public felt.

Their new heroes could only protect them so well, which was a wake-up call to that this wasn't just some kids show where everything always ended well.

In these attacks people had died. Not very many considering the scale of some of them, but they had still died. Roughly a handful of people died from falling debree or the after effects of attacks, though far more people were just injured.

This man hadn't died at least. He had internal organ damage, severe blood loss and his spin was severed so he was paralyzed from the waist down. Organs had either been repaired or replaced, and once he was healed they planned to start trying to reconstruct his spine since it was a completely clean cut which meant he had a good chance of being able to at least limp again.

It was rather disturbing to know that Gemini White had been truthful when he told the crowd that the man would live if they helped him now. It showed he was someone who knew exactly how much damage the human body could take and would exploit that as much as he could.

And there was a big difference in someone being killed by random falling debris and actually being outright attacked. Even if people managed to get over the incident rather quickly all things considered, you could still feel the fear and discomfort every time the subject was brought up. So the government finally decided to stop twiddling its thumbs and hoping that the threat would either be killed or just go away and actually take action.

And Gorida almost lost it when he saw what they wanted.

The original plan had been to give the entire Satellite Police force an overhaul and then some. For whatever reason the bureaucrats just didn't get that conventional weapons did not work, and just getting a bigger version of said weapon wasn't about to help anyone except the people that were paid to do city repairs.

Case in point: Gemini Black vs. X-Plane.

There was no challenge, and the damn plane was only used to mix up the battle fields. Up until he and Zero Blade had been thrown off the two hadn't even missed a beat in trying to kill each other. Impressive definitely, but it also scared a lot of people for good reason. Presenting the combined information and theories that AMAKEN and NAZA and other companies that Gorida had never heard of had come up with quickly disperse that plan, and the discussion was ended with minimal changes made.

Well just under a week later the two government workers showed up with a new, far less 'panic plan'. It nearly made Gorida's jaw drop, but like he was about to argue when he just got nearly everything he could possible want handed to him on a silver platter.

Probably the most important thing was that he was going to be left in charge; in fact he pretty much was the boss now in everything but name now. It apparently had something to do with his 'relations with the four vigilantes'; for some reason people thought they were friends or at least acquaintances now since he'd managed to at least get some information out of them. The second thing nearly had Gorida smiling like a ten year old at the mere thought.

Shiny new police cars with all the bells and whistles, including hover feature. It wasn't like hovering technology wasn't readily available, it was just that it was extremely expensive and putting that money into police cars for a city were cars were there were now improv weapons didn't seem very smart. But they'd certainly help them get to literally go over anything that was blocking their paths. It'd be a few weeks before they got them sadly, but it was something.

They still got new weapons for all the good they'd do, but it was the thought that counted really. At least putting up a good image was key to keeping peace; if they seemed incompetent then there was no doubt people would panic. Reinstall the public's faith in its own law enforcement and protecting people efficiently once again was vital.

There was one catch however; there always was.

Gorida would have to do his hardest to talk to any and all of the children as much as possible now and get as much information as he could. Dr. Hikari to; as soon as the doctors would let him since it was becoming more and more obvious that the three most important satellites they used seemed to have more than a few extra features never mentioned in the manuals.

A Denpa-henkaned Tamotsu sat on the edge of a particularly tall building in Kodama with his head resting on his hand as he glared at nothing in particular. After a moment he caught sight of a random Denpa-virus milling mindlessly about on a Wave Road some ways away from him; obviously looking for another source to help sustain it. He watched the little black virus for a minute until it started to wander away from him.

In a second and a half and without having to even really move Tamotsu had flung the Triple Rod at the unsuspecting black and yellow virus. The thing was deleted in a shower of Denpa as it was stuck squarely in the side by the green tip of the weapon.

"You're getter faster and you didn't miss this time," Zero commented, causing the smile to slowly slide of Tamotsu's face, "But taking out your frustration on whatever helpless Denpa-virus that happens to pass by isn't going to help."

"I'm not in the mood so shut up," Tamotsu said; still angry after their unsuccessful attempt to track down the orange haired boy.

Any attempt to converse with Axl Trigger had ended horribly and more or less amounted to nothing. Despite how much the boy stuck out and how little he did to conceal himself he was amazingly hard to find when he wanted to be. Combine that with invisibility and the fact that he could jet around to increase jump distance to get away faster and suddenly what should have been an easy person to track and catch became next to impossible.

What really irritated Tamotsu however was that it was a game to the newly dubbed Axl Trigger. At first it'd obviously been a request from his FM partner since the two had a quick conversation before the chase had really begun, but now it was just for the sake of having a challenge. The past few hours had been filled with taunts and near-catches, quickly turning what was supposed to be a civil conversation into one with Tamotsu spewing various threats at the boy while trying to pin said boy down, only receiving laughing in his face for all his efforts.

Zero was obviously disappointed that a mere child who was obviously only trying to have a good time managed to get the blond so worked up. Tamotsu was less than pleased that the past few hours had amounted to nothing but a bruised ego and Zero shaking his head.

"Wouldn't you like to hear my idea?" Zero asked, and decided to continue when he received no protests, "In order to stay hidden, the boy's FM partner would have to hide within his Transfer. I could just investigate people's Transfers instead."

"Ok two things wrong with that plan," Tamotsu said, "One; that's a lot of Transfers, and two; pretty sure that's illegal."

"There is no law against such an act and it's not like I would be stealing or damaging their information so no one would know," Zero explained, ignoring the sarcastic commentary Tamotsu was making, "And I'd only have to check the Transfers of those around this 'Axl Trigger's age and build."

"What do you mean by 'build'?"

"He's rather short if you look past his armor. And any personality traits you'd think would help in locating him would be useful as well," Zero said, already thinking of roughly what Axl Trigger would look while not Denpa-henkaned. The hair could be any color or length sadly, but body build was at least something to go on and possible matching voice types...

Tamotsu thought about the boy they'd been hopelessly chasing and all the traits he'd displayed. After a minute of thinking Tamotsu stood up and casually walked to the other side of the building. Without a care in the world he stepped off the building and plumped to the ground without even the slightest hint of fear.

On landing Tamotsu only needed to bend his knees to absorb the shock of falling several dozen stories, once again very glad that fall damage was the very first thing that was accounted for in a Denpa-henkan. With only the slightest ache in his knees that would fade within the next ten seconds Tamotsu dismissed the Denpa-henkan and causally walked out of the alleyway, no one even suspecting who he'd been only a moment before.

"I have some ideas where he might go."

"We can search tomorrow Tamotsu," Zero said after a moment, "Exhausting yourself and wasting energy needlessly will only end badly you know."

Misora took a moment to stretch to relive the tension she had from the odd feeling she got while using the direct Wave Road. She gave the blue tinted road a look; when she'd truly gone up it the first time she felt…uneasy. Like she wasn't really wanted but was being tolerated because it was necessary. While she was traveling up to follow Rockman she had constantly felt like she would be thrown off if she did anything out of line.

"What are you thinking about, Harp Note?" Subaru asked when he saw that the girl seemed to be thinking after she stretched.

"Oh, um….just how cool it is to go into space. Now I regret not doing it earlier; it's defiantly a good way to escape, well, life in general," Misora said deciding to not mention that the entire reason she hadn't gone up before now was because of how uncomfortable that Wave Road felt. She knew that Harp felt even worse yet forever reason the trip down wasn't half as bad since she'd hardly felt a thing; just enough to keep her a bit tense and apprehensive.

"Yeah I know right? But do you really have to go?" Subaru asked. He liked talking to her since she helped to talk his mind off everything and it just felt nice to talk to someone normally. Despite who they were and what they did they only ended up talking about normal things after Subaru stopped what was quickly becoming a one-sided conversation on constellations and stars.

Subaru let it slip that his father was missing and his mother, even if she acted like she was fine, was taking it hard. She probably kept it together only because he was with her which was ironic since Subaru kept it together so he could take care of her. Misora had instantly empathized with him; even if she did outright say it apparently her mother had passed away a while ago.

So she didn't do what everyone else did and say 'I'm so sorry,' or something along those lines because what did she have to be sorry for? It wasn't her fault that his father was missing and apologizing needlessly did nothing to comfort someone who'd obviously been hearing it for months now. Instead she was the perfect listener and let Subaru talk as much or little as he wanted, and he in turn listened to her.

Having someone to talk to who actually understood what you were feeling was a million times better than someone saying 'I'm sorry' out of pity alone.

Subaru wished that he knew who Harp Note really was; he actually wanted a friend like her.

"Yeah, I do," A mischievous smile started to work its way onto her face, "My…caretaker is probably having a panic attack as to where I am right now. I said I'd be back in an hour and it's been almost three."

"Careful, you wouldn't want to worry the man to death…yet," Harp added and Misora smiled as she thought just how her manager must be feeling now.

"And you say I'm mean, Harp," War-Rock muttered to himself.

Subaru ignored War-Rock and instead nodded as Misora turned to leave, "Don't get lost!"

It was embarrassingly easy to get lost on the higher up Wave Roads since they all crisscrossed and often led to random locations or doubled back on themselves. Even with the ability to fly around the world in seconds it could take forever to get anywhere if you just kept going in circles.

"I won't~!"

Misora easily glided along the Wave Road as she made her way to the Americas where she currently was for a spring break concert tour. Even though her manager had doubtlessly been worrying for nearly two hours the girl didn't increase her speed past the slow pace she was at now (in relative terms). She twisted a bit and played with the golden pathway of light's slight anti-gravity properties, though it was nothing like being in space was.

Harp noticed Misora didn't seem to really be paying attention, "What are you thinking about, Misora?"

"Just about Rockman and…"

Harp cut Misora off, "You seem to like him well enough."

"Well, yeah. He's nice and actually understands how I feel. I'm so tired of people treating me like I'm something more than a normal person but I don't want to stop singing…I just like the change in treatment and being understood I guess," Misora answered and Harp smirked.

"So you like him. Or do you like him?"

Misora managed to not blush, "Harp! That wasn't what I meant and you know it!"

Harp just laughed, "Oh I know, I know. I just couldn't help it since it's so easy to interpret it that way. I'd actually think that myself if I didn't know any better. Now what were you trying to say?"

"Just how Rockman seems nice enough and I'd like to make a friend with someone who didn't ogle over me. But what if he happens to be a fan and knowing who I am changes everything…How would I even go about tell him anyway?"

"Oh stop worrying Misora; you're being a bit of a hypocrite," Harp said, "And you could just outright tell him. Or of you feel like being creative you could just hand him a concert ticket and a VIP pass and wait for his reaction."

Misora smiled as she thought over how that would go.

"Heh. Maybe."

Subaru walked down the streets without a care for where he was going, glad that there weren't many people out today. Even with his spirits lifted from his talk with Harp Note he still felt uneasy. Just because Harp said that Gemini Spark wouldn't use his mother as leverage she had also indirectly said that he would when he finally got fed up with this mission. But just how long would that be; a few more weeks, months, years possibly?

And if it did come down to it, what would he chose?

Logic would state the Earth, especially considering that his mother couldn't live without the planet. But even then the mere idea of just having to choose was enough horrify Subaru. It did; however, make a perfect distraction to the doubt Gemini White had tried to install in Subaru abut War-Rock, and the FM had absolutely no intention of bringing that back up.

War-Rock really wasn't ready to have that conversation with Subaru yet.

So Subaru would only grow stronger so next time they fought he'd be able to take down Gemini Spark without any trouble. Just because Gemini White said he'd destroy his host did not necessarily make it true and…

Subaru let out a gasp as he was roughly pulled back by his arm successfully stopping his walk. Turning around quickly, Subaru saw the large form of Gonta behind him and still maintain the somewhat harsh grip on the smaller boy's arm.

"What are you…"

"Good afternoon, Subaru," Luna said simply as she walked up from behind Gonta with Kizamaro following behind her, "I noticed that you were looking rather sad so I decided to see if anything was wrong."

Subaru raised an eyebrow, "Why do you even care?"

"Because; you've only been regularly attending school for a few weeks now. When you consider this break along with the fact that you seem to be having a dilemma right now I wouldn't want you to stop attending classes. It's only just now that we've been finally having a perfect attendance record you know."

"The fact that Luna is current class president and was actively trying to get you to go to school beforehand is good to have on record," Kizamaro added and pushed his glasses up, "It's very good for Luna to start obtaining such a record for when she plans to run for student body president."

"Right. Now let me go," Subaru demanded as he tried to free himself from Gonta's grip.

Gonta just smirked at the boy's futile efforts, "Not a chance!"

"Hey now-"

"Listen, Subaru," Luna interrupted before things could progress any farther, "If you see Sir Rockman you need to tell him that I have something for him, ok?"

Subaru looked at the blond oddly, wondering just what she had for him. After a moment he decided it couldn't hurt to at least ask, "Well what do you have for, er, Rockman?"

Luna had apparently been hoping for Subaru to ask her as she smiled before flashing something in front of Subaru's face. It took the brunet a moment to focus on the blue cards considering just how close they were being held to his face. When he was able to read what he realized were Battle Cards his eyes widened a bit at the powerful cards.

Seeing that the boy knew just what she was holding in her hands Luna smiled before casually pulling them away. She casually looked through the Battle Cards, "I figured I could repay Sir Rockman for saving me by helping him get better Battle Cards. It's the least I can do for my hero~!"

"H-Hero?" Subaru stuttered.

"Of course, he's been helping and saving people so he's a hero and he's my hero!" Luna snapped before letting out a huff, "Just because you're some lame slacker doesn't mean everyone else is! Other people are out there risking their lives every day it seems, the least you could do is fulfill your own responsibilities."

"Oh if only she knew…" War-Rock chuckled to himself.

"Did you say something?" Gonta asked Subaru.

"No!" Subaru answered a little too quickly and only received an accusing glare from the larger boy.

"I know you said something!" Gonta accused and tightened his grip on Subaru's arm.

"No I didn't!"

"Yes you did!"

"Not the brightest is he?"

Subaru really wished he could shut War-Rock up because he was not helping.

"What did you say?" Gonta said and tried to look threatening to Subaru though he failed miserably considering everything that had happened to the brunet.

"I didn't say anything, can you let go of my arm now?" Subaru asked as calmly as he could manage. He didn't want to get into a fight with someone nearly twice his size considering he didn't have all the nice superpowers to aid him.

"Not until Luna tells me to…" Gonta started.

Subaru's arm (or more like Transfer) suddenly moved itself hard enough that it yanked cleanly out of Gonta's hands. The larger boy blinked at the sudden show of strength but didn't think much about it and only focused on trying to catch the smaller boy. Subaru saw Gonta trying to catch him again and quickly pushed the larger boy away from him.

Gonta was sent sprawling from the unintentional force and ended up landing on Kizamaro, nearly crushing the poor boy. Subaru blinked at having so easily shoved away someone nearly twice his size but quickly figured that War-Rock had made him apply more force than he first assumed.

"I…have to go," Subaru quickly said and made sure that he was gone before Gonta could recover.

"Hey-!"

"Just wait a minute Subaru!" Luna shouted after the boy only to be ignored, "Subaru! Oh that idiot…Gonta stop crushing Kizamaro!"

Gonta stood up while rubbing the place on his front where Subaru had shoved him. Ignoring the surprisingly harsh sting Gonta turned around and more or less peeled Kizamaro off the ground. Holding the short boy up by one hand, Gonta placed the thankfully not broken glasses back on Kizamaro's face before setting him back down.

Kizamaro stumbled a bit but managed to not fall and stand steady after a moment, "T-Thank you Gonta…"

"I can't believe that you let Subaru push you around so easily, I thought you were tougher than that!" Luna said.

"Hey, it's not my fault; he's stronger than he looks you know!" he defended.

"Unlike you, Subaru must have an extremely high muscle to fat ratio since he's so much shorter than you are. Which would mean that he's stronger than you even though you're much larger than he is and…"

Luna stopped listening to Kizamaro rambling off various facts and reasons why Subaru could be that strong while simultaneously insulting Gonta in subtle ways. The short boy was very lucky that Gonta wasn't truly paying attention either.

"I don't feel comfortable doing this, War-Rock…" Subaru complained weakly from where he stood on the War-Road.

The FM attached to his arm just rolled his eyes, "Don't be such a wuss, that Luna girl was going to give you more cards right? So just take them now because your deck sucks."

"I know that! It's just…what we drop down in front of her in the middle of the street and demand the Battle Cards?" Subaru casually shot a Denpa-virus that had gotten too close to him for all the good it'd do in the long run considering their numbers.

It was amazing just how many Denpa-viruses there were everywhere even if most of them were laughably weak. In fact as he watched Subaru could see a few get fired by the natural safe guards that surrounded pretty much anything electronic. The only time they were dangerous would been in massive groups or the freaky Virus-humans that had just randomly stopped appearing.

"If you won't do it then I will, don't you want better weapons?" War-Rock said.

"Well yes but-Whoa!"

Subaru was cut off as a dark blur slammed into him. The force was enough to knock the boy clean off the Wave Road and Subaru ended up pulling the one who'd crashed into him with him as he fell. There were several seconds of confusion before they both crashed down onto the streets below.

"Man, we're never going to find my Sir Rockman, are we?" Luna complained loudly, already feeling an ache building in her feet.

"Probably not," Gonta agreed without sounding to concerned.

Kizamaro didn't reply and continued to mutter to himself as he checked over several settings on his Transfer, "These readings can't be right…"

Luna quickly rounded on the larger boy, "Hey, just what are you saying Gonta? You don't want us to find Sir Rockman?"

"N-No…It's just we've been looking for him for so long and I'm starting to get hungry so maybe we should take a rest and have a snack…"

"…Guys? I think we have a problem here," Kizamaro said worriedly.

"You're always hungry Gonta!" Luna said, ignoring her diminutive companion.

"Hey, I'm not always hungry!"

Luna scoffed, "Oh, and when would that be?"

"Guys?"

"Uh…" Gonta drew a blank.

"Hah, see you're always hungry or ready to eat! And because of that I'm not about to let you get away on preforming some exercise in exchange for eating tons of junk food. I'm not going to let you die from a heart attack because all you do is eat garbage and not exercises when you're not even in high school yet. Do you hear meEE-!"

Luna's rant quickly turned into a scream as something blue and apparently black ended up crashing into the pavement below. Luna just stared at what was actually two rather well known boys who'd literally fallen from the sky not five feet in front of her.

Hiroki had somehow ended up sprawled on his back on Subaru who had face planted into the ground. The orange haired boy laid there dazed for several moments until Axl's worry suddenly leaked over and force the boy awake.

Hiroki sat up slowly, "I'm fine, I'm fine Axl…Really need to work on breaking on those Wave Roads huh?"

"…If you don't get off in the next five seconds…" War-Rock growled and lifted up Subaru's arm (in a very unnatural angle) so he could properly see the boy. Subaru was still trying to comprehend what had just happened.

Hiroki amazingly only just not realized that he was sitting on Subaru's back and Subaru was lucky he was as strong as he was or else the weight would've been damaging his spine. War-Rock continued to glare at the boy even if the 'I will hurt you' message he was trying to convey was lost on the boy.

"Oh hey, Rockman right?" Hiroki said without any attempt to get up, 'If you see that Zero blade guy you haven't seen me, ok? Kinda ticked him off earlier and I think he's going to-Ack!"

War-Rock was finally fed up with the boy's babbling and abruptly grabbed Hiroki's exposed bicep just light enough to not saw through the grey suit. With an impressive amount of force considering the limits that Subaru's arm would bend War-Rock flung the orange-haired boy off the brunet.

Subaru was finally able to sit up properly and quickly scrambled so he was standing up. The brunet took a moment to dust himself off and looked over to where Hiroki had landed when War-Rock had thrown him. Hiroki just blinked at the seemingly upside-down world from where he had somehow ended up on his head with his back leaning on the (now slightly dented) side door of a car.

"Geeze War-Rock, you didn't have to throw him that hard…" Subaru said as he looked at the ten or so feet Hiroki had been flung.

"He was sitting on your back and knocked us off the damn Wave Road!" War-Rock countered.

"Well…"

"Sir Rockman~!"

Subaru blinked as Luna ran up to him, completely ignoring the couple of other people who were presant now staring at her, "Are you ok?"

Subaru opened his mouth only for War-Rock to answer, "Kid's fine. If something as lame as that could hurt him then he'd be dead long ago."

"Really, because you just feel out of the sky and…where that other boy go?" Subaru looked to the side to see that, yes, Hiroki had vanished in the few seconds Subaru had looked away. "Oh well that's not important right now because I have these for you!"

Luna quickly fished out two of her prized Battle Cards and held them out to Subaru with an expecting look on her face. Subaru hesitated for a moment as he looked between the cards and Luna's hopeful face (all the while trying to ignore the people who were staring). Finally he took the cards and looked over them, eyes widening a bit.

"Break Saber and Fokx-Fu 2?" Subaru read, thoroughly impressed with the power levels each read. He wasn't quite sure how 'Fokx-Fu 2' would work but even if the started power levels on the card weren't the only thinks dictating how much power they had (other factors being things like skill, accuracy, and how much power was used) but 180 had to do some good, right?

"Thank you…but aren't these really, really expensive?" Anything above common level began to really get expensive, cards with power levels over 150 were limited in distributing considering the damage they could cause to electronics if used poorly. Anything over 200 was extremely hard to get a hold of since there was a chance of real-world damage.

"Oh, it's no problem, really! I have plenty of money and you need them way more than I do!" Luna quickly assured, "I mean with how much you put yourself in danger and how you protect everyone even though you get hurt…"

Luna was blushed a bit and Subaru found himself feeling a bit awkward. He absently sent the two new cards to his 'library' and his free hand quickly found itself rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly. War-Rock rolled his eyes at his partner's behavior and refusal to bask in the praise he got for once.

"You saved my friend you know."

It took Subaru a moment to realize just what Luna was talking about, "Oh, it wasn't anything really, I did what I had to do and I had help you know. I wouldn't have been able to do it any other way."

"But you helped all those people; you've saved lives, including mine!" Luna argued.

"I couldn't let you, or anyone die when I could prevent it. I'm just trying to do what's right, there's really nothing to special about that. Wouldn't you do the same?"

"So you say…" War-Rock muttered to himself. Just because it was the right thing to do didn't mean that anyone else would be so willing to stick their necks out.

Another reason why children were so perfect for Denpa-henkan and why they were chosen if one was a compatible host. Not just their massive growth potential and ability to simply 'go with it' far better than adults, but simply because of their willingness to do something just because they wanted to. In most cases the world hadn't had a chance to crush their ideals or beliefs which meant that they were far more willing to fight for the simple reason of 'it's the right thing to do,' or 'to protect those I care for'.

"Sir Rockman…" Luna started.

"You don't have to call me 'Sir', I can't be much older than you," Subaru said, finally voicing his opinion on his new 'title'.

"But I want to!" Luna quickly replied before continuing, "You may say that what you do isn't special but it is! I…I could never fight like you do; I could never stand up against such creatures like you do! So don't you dare try and sell yourself short, because you're…"

"As touching as a scene this is, you're blocking traffic."

Both children quickly turned towards the voice and saw Detective Gorida standing there rather nonchalantly. Subaru registered his words and did a quick look around to see that, yes, he was blocking 'traffic' since a few people had formed a scattered circle around the two. Subaru felt himself starting blush a bit from embarrassment at having said those things in front of them and was very glad his visor helped most of it either blend or be hidden.

"Um…well…"

"Can't you just go away?" War-Rock complained, "If you're going to try and catch us again then you really need something better to do."

Gorida was hardly even phased by War-Rock anymore since that was admittedly one of the more normal (or at least consistent) things he had to deal with, "You…two are vigilantes who, despite all thing good things you've done, continue to get into the middle of police business. Not to mention you're obviously a minor and dealing with Denpa-viruses is serious business that only the Satellite Police should deal with."

"Hey, we need to kill those stupid things to you know! Battle Cards ain't cheap and since my partner is too much of a goodie two shoes to just take them we have to earn money somehow!" War-Rock snapped in annoyance.

"You're getting money from Denpa-viruses?" Gorida said in surprises, "Wait, you can actually retrieve stolen data from a Denpa-virus once you've deleted it?"

"Well yeah, it just kinda falls onto the Wave Road once the virus is deleted," Subaru explained, "And since we don't have any way to know where it came from…"

"So…you've been deleting Denpa-viruses in droves on the off chance they drop stolen money data, and then you take said money and use it to buy more Battle Cards?" the detective pressed. The ability to retrieve stolen data even after deleting the Denpa-virus could be incredibly useful if they could replicate it.

"Uh…"

"And what's a Wave Road anyway?" He'd heard that term used a few times but when he looked nothing came up that could possibly be it.

Subaru was wondering just how he was supposed to explain Wave Roads to someone who never had seen them before or if he should even try and say what they really were. Thankfully it was Luna to the rescue.

"Hey, if the problem you have with Sir Rockman is him fighting Denpa-viruses for money so I can get him Battle Cards, then I can take care of that!" Luna pulled out another Battle Card, "I can give him all the rare Battle Cards he needs and he won't have to get in your way anymore."

Gorida looked over the 'Jet Attack 3' card with surprise, "How'd you get this?"

"I paid for it," was Luna's quick response before turning back to an uncomfortable Subaru, "So I believe that-Hey!"

He ignore the girl as he looked over the Battle Card and confirming that it really was real. Gonta saw this and stepped up while glaring at the detective, silently demanding the card back. Gorida saw this and, giving the card one last look, handed it back to Luna who snatched it quickly.

Detective Gorida wasn't even remotely surprised that Rockman had fled in that time. It would've been more of a surprise if he had stayed.

"This is an…interesting selection that King Cepheus sent us…" Gemini White said, looking over the four newly arrived FM life forms.

"Another Overdrive will be useful to us at least," Cygnus Wing commented idly and ignoring the snort Ox gave.

"I'll rip their cores out just like King Cepheus does except I'll be less…clean than he is," The blue FM known as Wolf growled.

"Yes, yes, we all know just how much you enjoy violence, Wolf," the head-like FM known as Crown said dismissingly. He was rather tired of hearing this since that'd all Wolf had said on the trip here. It made him even more glad King Cepheus had been willing to help them accelerate their trip to Earth.

"I still find it hard to believe that the traitors were able to give you so much trouble that you requested backup," A lavender female FM said.

"It is only because of the humans ability to hyper accelerate the long term effects of willing Denpa-henkan Ophiuchus," Gemini White replied, "Hence the new plan we have involving all of you."

"I still do not see the logic in this plan," Libra asked, "We now have two options we could pursue. A: Continue to attack like we have and be met with more failure, or B: Attack as one and overwhelm with a far higher chance of success."

Gemini White only gave Libra a rather disturbing smirk. Libra, however, refused to back down now even if his self-preservation instinct argued with him. Gemini could now only try and force submission with pure intimidation considering King Cepheus' not-so-subtle threat to his own general.

Getting no reaction managed to make the white FM's smirk falter for all of a second before her replied, "Libra, you aren't thinking long term. And remember than even a weak creature can become strong if its life is in danger, and I for one do not want to see if Zero's host can control his Overdrive."

Cygnus Wing decided to finish, "Yes, we will be making them stronger. Yes we will be accelerating their growth even more. But everyone here knows what is at the end of any long-term Denpa-henkan, correct?"

Ever FM present nodded in silent agreement...except for one.

"Uh…I don't?" Their smallest member of their new group said questioningly as he raised a claw to draw even more attention to himself.

Gemini White turned to the rather young FM with a deceptively pleasant smile on his face hiding the dark amusement he felt at the FM's future plight. He was floating innocently in what had been declared 'Gemini Black's corner' (even if it wasn't a technical corner), completely unaware of the danger he was in.

Cancer was very luck that Gemini White had sent his counterpart away for a minute so they could commence introductions and planning without having to worry about the black FM interrupting or just being annoying.

"Well, Cancer was it?" A nod of confirmation from the tiny FM, "Too much of anything is bad. It's similar to when there is too much energy in a certain place on Planet FM and everything starts to overload, you know about that right?"

It was a rare problem but one that Cancer knew very well, "The flowers start dying, just like in a Dead Zone. And FMs can become sick from too much energy."

Gemini White nodded, "Yes, the indicator flowers around the planet start to die along with the rest of our sparse organic life. Think of a human's body just like that. They can take in so much energy, amazing amounts really, and adapt to it so they don't die right away. But in the end…to much builds up and their bodies give out on them."

Gemini White continued, "Humans adapt and grow several times fast than any organic species we've ever met before. But that only means they'll reach the point where they cannot adapt and evolve fast enough to survive, just like any other species. In fact, they will only reach this point faster than ever, taking only a few months instead of years. I'm already seeing the signs you know."

"I believe there is a term for this. By forcing them to grow even faster we will force the traitors to also 'fly too close to the sun'. Then we only need to retrieve the key from whatever is left."

There was a rather foreboding silence as any doubts were put to rest with the plan. Gemini White didn't lie and didn't exaggerate unless it was needed to help himself. But even then, seeing signs as early as now?

It was hard to believe, but no one argued.

"Get the fuck out of my spot!"

Whatever tension and atmosphere Gemini White had created was instantly shattered as Gemini Black suddenly phased through a wall. See Cancer floating in 'his spot' the black FM grabbed the red and blue FM and flung him away so he hit Crown full in the face. Crown sputtered indignantly and Cancer took a moment to reoriented himself as Gemini Black make himself comfortable again.

"What was that for you jerk!" Cancer shouted as he flew up so he was in Gemini Black's face.

Gemini Black gave the yelling FM an unamused look before causally grabbing Cancer with his golden arm and applying pressure. Cancer let out a small squeak at this as started to sputter out random apologies; fully believing he was going to die now.

"Let him go Black," Gemini White commanded.

Gemini Black glared and resisted for a second, squeezing more and Cancer let out a yelp. But one red eye twitched and finally Cancer was released, quickly scrambling away from the irritated FM.

"What the hell is he to you, White?" Gemini Black asked.

"He is our new… messenger. Though he can't send messages like Harp using the Wave Roads to send frequencies, he is small enough to be able to latch onto the tiny connection that King Cepheus has given us. Using that he can travel to Planet FM in roughly a day instead of the weeks it would take us."

Gemini Black just huffed at the explanation, muttering something rather unpleasant under his breath. Feeling more confident, Cancer pointed a claw a the resting FM.

"Hear that? I serve a key role in this mission, so you have to respect me, you hear?"

Gemini Black glared at Cancer and successfully silenced the small FM.

"Your…'partner'?" Ophiuchus asked. She'd obviously have a disbelieving look on if her helmet allowed for it.

"Sadly."

"Hate you."

"So…" Crown interrupted before things could get worse, "Who shale go first?"

"I'll do it!" Wolf quickly volunteered, though he glared at everyone as if daring them to challenge him.

"Not going to try yet, Ophiuchus?" Cygnus Wing asked the lavender FM.

"I'd rather investigate and learn the best plan of action before I risk anything," Ophiuchus explained.

"So Wolf is going first?" When no one objected Gemini White continued, "Very well then. Your host is in Kodama, I trust you can find him from there. In fact, all your hosts should be in Kodama, though why that is I am not sure yet."

"Don't underestimate my abilities," Wolf said.

"Don't get caught and killed then."

Throughout this entire conversation, no one noticed Cancer and Gemini Black glaring at each other. Gemini Black lifted his head up a bit and slowly let one finger across his neck. Cancer would've paled if he could and quickly turned away, never seeing the black FM all but crack up shortly afterwards.

And so ends another chapter. But hey, next chapter gives a few answers on some things you may have been wondering. Or it'll just make things more confusing.