Chapter 44: Friendly Assist
Chapter's POV: Cross
For the next few days, I did missions. I helped Kaze, a member of the Harriers, look for some BLADEs that went missing. During our search, we found an injured Ma-non. He asked us for help, but Kaze refused, even saying that Terrans had no Xeno friends. Now I remember how I felt about how Inklings used to treat Octolings. After I brought the Ma-non some Muneria Flowers, he used them with a healing machine to restore his legs. Kaze still seemed to think it was a waste of time, though. Unfortunately, only one BLADE survived, and after we found him, we had to defend him from Indigens. He was about to leave BLADE, but we managed to convince him not to. After he left, the Ma-non from before appeared and gave us a transmitter that could fix spacial distortions. Kind of ironic, since one such distortion is how we were able to have BLADE in the first place. He tried to make me his pupil, and even though I turned him down, he went ahead and acted like it was official. There was just no convincing him.
Later, I met up with Sen and Mestin, a member of Sen's team. Sen offered to pay us for some food, which Tatsu immediatly jumped on. After he was stuffed, we figured out Mestin had a crush on someone. Era said that Sen would be a good person to ask for advice, but when she brought up that he was married, Sen's attitude changed, and he left, wishing his teammate luck. We had to convince Era that he wasn't mad at her. After that, Mestin asked us to help him. After we got a look at Kasinna, the Octoling that Mestin had a crush on, I suggested that he should get her a present. However, Deylin knocked the idea down, which led to Era suggesting that he ask her out to dinner. Mestin was unsure, so Deylin sugested getting a bracelet or something.
Mestin agreed to the idea, but needed some help finding something to give her, so Tatsu suggested getting a 'shiny rock'. Tatsu then pulled out what he called a 'Nopon matchmaking stone.' We didn't want to use Tatsu's, since he was probably saving his for something, so we went to look for one. After that, we went to a jewelry shop to try to put it into a bracelet, but as it turned out, it was harder than diamond. Just as we began to feel like we failed, Sen suddenly appeared and told us of a Ma-non craftsman that could get the job done.
Era tried to apologize to him, but instead Sen told her how grateful he was for how hard she worked to help his team. After Lao joined our group, we went to the Ma-non ship and talked to the craftsman, who agreed to do it for ten pizzas. Food as payment? That sounds like something Tatsu would have suggested. Anyway, we bought the pizzas, and the Ma-non made the bracelet. Mestin then went to ask Kasinna out, and we went to see how it was going, and it was going well. I was pretty satisfied myself, since I managed to help another friend. After all was said and done, me and my team decided to hit the hay.
*To be continued*
