As soon as they were all ready, Godwin put them on a transport to the satellite to go turn the ener-d reactor in reverse and beat the dark signers. The transport was being piloted by some sector security guy Yusei had a history with and Jack's assistant came along with them too. Everyone was sitting down with just enough elbow room to make sure none of them felt claustrophobic while Jack, Miles, and Yusei's runners filled most of the transport. Leo and Luna were sitting across from Miles looking out the windows at the blue sea that surrounded their city and earlier seeing Dex, Tanner, and Yanagi wave goodbye and good luck at them. Miles was sitting next to Akiza who was looking at her deck in her hands, with an expression that looked confident and of clear mind but also with a hint of discern. He scooted his way over to her as he looked at her deck. She noticed and stopped to look at him and give a look that said 'can I help you?'
"Oh sorry I just wanted to see your deck was all, you got a lot of good cards"
"Thanks" she said as she straightened up her deck then put it back in her duel disk. Miles knew that subtlety was out of the window, since there was no real subtle way to ask 'is something wrong with you?'
"Hey are you ok?" he asked. Even though he still didn't really know her he could tell when something was wrong with someone. They just gave off a aura to him saying that
She looked down at her deck and sighed
"I don't really know, I mean a lot has happened in the last couple of days and…" she said with a slight chuckle "…I honestly don't know how to process everything at once" she said as Miles looked at her, he kind of understood her but he didn't want to seem like the one ass that says 'oh I completely understand' so just to make sure he had all the facts straight he asked her
"What do you mean?" she took her gaze off her deck and shifted it toward him
"I mean with having a place I called home tumble down and the person who took me in when no one else did dying the same time the building did. Then almost dying to have someone save you…" she said then paused "By the way thank you about that" she said as Miles chuckled
"Oh come on all I did was get hit by a big chunk of building for you, you're the one that practically saved me" he said as he rubbed his side, guess Luna's magic kiss couldn't take away all the pain.
"Yeah but without you that piece of building could've killed me, I'm surprised you didn't die because of it" she said as Miles rolled up his sleeve and showed her his mark
"That's because of this thing, it makes me stronger and able to endure even more than you guys. It's suppose to make me a better guardian"
"Huh well aren't you lucky?" she said as Miles shook his head
"Nope, this thing's a pain because of it I always put myself in situations where I'm going to get hurt and even with all that endurance when you get cut by the vines off your dragon, fall down a flight of stairs, or even have a chunk of building fall on you it still hurts like hell"
"Still it must help to know you can get through stuff like that"
"That's probably one of the only reasons I'm tagging along for this" he said as he looked over at Luna, remembering the other major reason he's still going to the satellite.
"Hey for whatever it counts for, when Godwin said all that stuff about you basically being useless I wanted to sick my monsters on him and tell him he was wrong" Miles let a small laugh, the thought of Godwin being strung up by veins and being growled at by black rose dragon and looking terrified was too funny at the moment.
"Thanks"
"We're about to land in 3 minutes" Yusei said from the cockpit
"Guys get back in your seats" Miles said to Leo and Luna who complied and stopped looking out the window and sat down.
"It's amazing how well they listen to you, almost hard to believe your just their brother" Akiza said. While she didn't have any siblings she inferred from what she read and heard from other people that siblings usually didn't get along to well most of the time and didn't listen to one another that much either.
"Welp with my dad being who he is and my mom really being out of the picture I guess they look at me like a parent to fill the void" Miles said. He always inferred that, only because that was the only reason he thought they listened to him at all. When he was younger he thought they just listened because he was taller, it made him laugh whenever he thought of that.
"Wait is you mom?"
"Dead? No, she's just overly invested in her senator job and never comes home from the capital"
"Sounds like my dad, or what he was like back then" she said remembering nights where she'd stay up all night just to see him walk in at 2 in the morning then get a little mad at her for staying up. But then smile at her and pat her head as he picked her up and brought her to her room and tucked her in.
"Yeah but your dad at least came home and tried to be a parent, dear old mom doesn't stop by ever unless Christmas rolls around"
"Why's that?" Akiza asked as Miles shrugged
"I don't know but wish I did" he said as they all felt the ship starting to land and the doors in the back. Leo was the first to get up and out of there as he hopped on the ground
"Oh land sweet land, and all the space to wave my arms around finally!" he said loving having his space back
"Ok kid we get it your happy were off" jack said, never really liking children all too much they always seemed annoying to him. Miles stepped out with Akiza and Yusei as they saw a big building infront of them, it was a little beat up and it had a playground.
"Hey what is this place?" Miles asked as Yusei looked around this place, in some thought
"Yusei?" Akiza asked
"This is the orphanage that I was raised in" he said as he looked over at the small playground and swear he almost saw him and jack and another one of his friends running around there playing superhero. "My friends took me here when Kallen beat me" he said remembering his dark signer battle with his old friend.
"Jack!" they all heard a older woman say. She came out of the orphanage, she was a ebony skinned woman with hair that looked like it was in dreads but on further inspection you could tell that it just looked like that naturally. She ran up and practically tackled him in a hug as jack tried to push her off
"Martha please!" Jack said as she giggled then backed off while Miles, Akiza, Leo, and Luna couldn't help but laugh and ask what the heck was going on.
"Do we even want to know?" Leo asked as Yusei chuckled
"Her name's Martha, she's mine and Jack's foster mother and… well she really likes to humiliate him"
"Oh! Do that thing you used to do when you were a kid for me" Martha asked Jack jumped back a little
"What!? I haven't done that since I was 5!"
"Don't you raise your voice at me mister!" she said in a authorative stern tone that Jack actually showed some fear towards "I was just asking you to do something really simple now if you please. You at least owe me that for the last couple of years of not coming to see me or even call" Jack grumbled a little as he knelt down on one knee and extended out his hand
"Please me lady would you be kind to kiss the hand of this lowly prince" everyone was holding back chuckles as Martha knelt down and kissed his hand then helped him up slowly
"Now was that so hard?" she asked as Jack could hear the snickers coming from the background
" Vary" he said angerly as he stepped into the house along with everyone else and started to plan on how they were going to switch on the ener-d reactor
Meanwhile
A black and white van was cruising through the vast wasteland of the satellite. In it was two sector security guards and two criminals in the back both banished from the city and sent to the satellite to go to a place worse than the facility, a high security prison that Yusei once got knocked into and met Yanagi and Tanner there. He got kicked in there for crossing from the satellite to new domino without a permit to do so. But these two didn't do too well in the facility they started fights tried to break out, generally made like a worse hell than it was in there. So they were being taken to the wasteland of the satellite to be left stranded to fend for themselves. So long as they were out of the city sector security didn't care what happened to them. The two alleged criminals were a big tanned and built man with black hair that went down and was long, the other was the very definition of punk. Black leather vest and torn up dark blue jeans with a grey shirt on. His hair was long and black and wild looking and the best word to describe the look on his was pissed to all hell
"So what a kid like you being banished for?" the built guy asked
"They busted me for duel runner theft"
"Really that's all?" he asked shocked that would condone being banished
"It wasn't just one, I've stolen so many I lost count. Been doing it since I was 13, it was good 4 years of thieving and chopping" he explained loving the memories that came back to him when he said it. The built guy sighed as he settled back into his seat before the guards driving the truck said something, he thought he might've at least found something in common with this kid but he was just a criminal, at least with what the built guy did to him was noble in his mind. The punk stretched out his hand for him to shake and introduced himself
"Names Dylan, call me Dye though" the guy scoffed off Dye as he said his name
"My name is Griger" he said as Dye rescinded his hand
"I get it write me off, oh he stole runners for no reason. That's not the case, while I made my own runner from some of those stolen parts the rest I sold so I cud take care of myself and my mother…" he said striking some interest in Griger
"Your mother?"
"She's sick and we can't afford her medicine on our own and my dad left when I was a little kid. My mom and me are poor because someone decided to take her identity and all her money, we were on the streets in no time and the banks and government did nothing to help us. So my mother got sick trying to find food for me and keep me healthy. When I was old enough and saw my mother getting worse I couldn't take it I stole a sector security runner and sold it for parts to help her, and then another and another. I blame the government for not helping my mother after some punk decided to ruin her future" he said clenching his fists tight in anger he hated the way the city ran. Griger had looked shocked, not just because of how wrongly he was to write this guy off but also at how they had something in common
"I'm sorry Dye, not just for your mother but for me. I've had a rough couple of months"
"Why what happened to you?" he asked as Griger let out a small growl, just thinking of him made him mad.
"Godwin destroyed my home and family and I tried to take his life to repay the favor" he said the anger resonating off him. Dye went wide eye and let out a small gasp
"What how?"
"I don't want to remember but I swear ill have his head for what he did" he said almost looking like he'd cry while still looking made. Dye sighed in his throat as he looked at Griger
"I'm so sorry, I hope you do get him I hate Godwin too he'd barely done anything to help guys like me who are homeless. Before you do him in kick him in the ribs once for me" he said as Griger chuckled
"Will do Dye…"
"Hey you two no talking!" one of the guards yelled as Dye and Griger glared at him as the guard rolled his eyes and they all felt a bump "Steve! What the hell!? Trying to drive over pot holes!?"
"Its not me its this damn fog and AHH!" both guards screamed as the both got hit by a giant boulder that crushed the both of them as Dye and Griger gasped and got up
"Holy crap" Dye said as they heard the door being opened in the back. They turned around as it was slammed open and as a figure in a black cloak with gold outlining looked at them, both taking fighting stances or at least the best they could with the cuffs on.
"Put the fists down I mean no harm"
"Like hell you do how do we know you didn't make it so those two died just now?" Dye asked as the man chuckled
"Do I look like I can move boulders at will, I'm only here because I sensed some candidates for my cause. And you both have potential"
"What's in it for us?" Griger asked as the man stepped into the transport
"A promise for a better world and a world where a boy and his mother live happily and healthy and where a man's home won't be destroyed in a flash with his family. A perfect world" he said pulling on the strings in both Griger and Dye's hearts.
"How did you…?" Dye began to ask as the cloaked figure looked at him and he could see a smile through his hidden face
"I know both your pain and I want to help. If you come with me ill give you all the power to make both your dreams come true so…" he said gesturing out his hand for them to take "… what do you both say"
Griger and Dye both thought for a moment. Both could tell that there was something about this guy that wasn't all to right. But at the same time he knew there problems and was willing to help them. Both were desperate and with a nod to one another the put their cuffed hands ontop of his and said
"We're in"
