"There's nothing here..." Aldous sighed as he laid on the grass lands that stretched for about a few hundred metres in the middle of a desert. He and Rob, plus the girl Candice, had been searching the land, even dug some holes, for hours, with no success. If there was a fragment here, it was long gone.

"Yeah..." Candice laid beside him as she put her headphones back on and began to listen to music. Thankfully, the clouds were overhead, else Aldous and Candice would have been fried if they laid in the grass under a desert sun. "Giving up, already?" Rob complained as he pulled himself out of his tenth hole. "Help me over here, Aldous!"

"Fine..." Aldous groaned as he raised his fist at the soil mound beside the hole and braced himself before giving out a steady Dai-Yon-Ha-Do, sending the dirt back into the hole. With his shovel, Rob patted the soil to flatten it before getting to the resting Aldous and Candice.

"Beautiful day, isn't it?" Rob wiped off his sweat with his handkerchief. "Still want to help us, Candice?"

"You kidding?" Candice smiled. "That was fun. Tiring but fun. And resting on the grass got to be the best feeling in the world."

"You sure?" Aldous raised an eyebrow. "Lying in the grass? That's the best feeling?"

"When you have to live in a place like a desert, anything can become the best feeling in the world. Also, Apollo always says that you should always think positive. Do that and the world's obstacles will seem to all disappear..."

"Such as our failure to find the fragment today?"

"Yeah, something like that..." Candice beamed from ear to ear as she picked herself up. "It never fails to refreshes me when I think like that."

"Hey!" Aldous grabbed her hand. "What's your full name?"

"Eh?" Candice quickly pulled her hand away, looking embarassed.

"We didn't really introduce. All I know is that your name is Candice, according to Apollo."

"C'mon, don't be shy." Rob joined in as he drank his watercan.

"I guess...I was a bit rude to not tell you my name in the first place." Candice giggled as she then took a pose of her holding her headphones and seemed to be acting like a DJ. "Name's Candice Groove. Local DJ. Loves to chill with buddies like you guys. Music-enthusiast. Apollo's daughter and only 16 year old in the desert village. And..." She then broke into a dance, a series of B-boy moves. "I break-dance. How's that?" She giggled as she concluded her introduction.

"Erm..." Aldous and Rob looked at her, then each other, then her again. "It was...okay..." Aldous shook hijs head as Rob stifled a laugh. "It could use a little music." The soldier said.

"Like this?" Candice's hand went for the end of the cord of her headphones and pulled it out.

Now imagine your favourite musical song ever. Then increase its volume by 10000 times, as if your musical device had just got connected to a 100 mega-speakers. Then add the ground shaking with each beat and boom and your ear-drums being overwhelmed by how amazing the sound was and how loud. Then imagine yourself being flying through the air, literally blown away by the awesomeness of the sound.

"Put it back in!" Aldous screamed as he and Rob tried to get a grip on the ground, their bodies helplessly flailing in the air. "This is epic!" Rob seemed to enjoying the music.

"I can't hear you!" Candice seemed to be just standing there, as if she didn't mind the blasting volume of her music.

"Aaargh!" Lighting his fists in fire, Aldous propelled himself towards Candice's side. In a swift movement, he grabbed the headphone cord out of her hand and plugged it back into the music player. Almost instantly, the sound disappeared and Rob, who was in the air a moment ago, dropped into one of the holes he had dug. "Aw man!"

"That was..." Aldous was trying to catch his breath. "Surprising..." he muttered as he picked his ear. Despite Eve's trumpet and the Resistance announcement, Aldous never seemed to be able to protect himself against massive sounds.

"Surprising? That was...AWESOME!" Aldous jumped as Rob leapt right out of his hole, his face jubilant and energized.

"You think so?" Candice blinked in surprise. "I know so. Maybe you become a Resistance DJ."

"Really?" Candice's eyes suddenly starry with hope.

"Wait a minute!" Aldous got between the conversation. "A DJ? With that volume? Are you F***ing mad, Rob?"

"Hey, beats having to hear the announcement voice everyday. Besides, a community could really use some spice in it, you know?"

"But...a DJ won't help us fight Arclight..."

"I told you already, Aldous. We are a family, not just some mere resistance force. The more the merrier. Besides, we should bring Apollo back to the Resistance. She's a Needless. She can help."

"And I'm her daughter." Candice nodded in agreement.

Aldous looked at both of their hopeful faces. Scratching his head in frustration, he promptly took out a Super Gel Doro Doro for a drink. "Haa..." He felt a sense of relief wash over him as the energy drink went down his throat.

"Well, I can't stop you..." He gave up. "YES!" Candice jumped for joy at his comment. "You won't regret this!" She assured as she gave a thank-you kiss on Aldous' cheek.

"Wha-?" Aldous blushed as he quickly rubbed off the spot where she kissed. Candice, realizing what she did, quickly turned away, feeling somewhat awkward. Rob, looking on from the side, could only smile. "Ahh...young love..." That comment quickly earned him a fist of fury from Aldous.

"So now what? Looks like it's getting late..." Aldous pointed to the setting sun. "C'mon, Rob..." Then he looked at Candice, who looked back with a questioning look, waiting for him to acknowledge her. "and Candy..."

"Candy?"

"Just a nickname for you..." Aldous shrugged as he dragged the punched Rob away, leaving Candice standing there thinking. "Candy...Candy...I like it! DJ Candy!" Running up to the duo's side, Candice began the walk back to her house with the ones she can call a family.

As they walked away from the grassland, a particular patch of it began to grow out and it began to form into a human body. The grass began to disappear, revealing a smirking figure.

"Target found..."