A few days passed, we turn our attention to Ragna where the Delta Platoon and Walkure were all back together with Ken who is reassigned as a member of Chaos and permanently as Mikumo's bodyguard.

The sea is swaying its water over and over before a Black Blue Siegfried zooms through as it is Hayate's unit.

"Yahooo!" Hayate howled out as he pilots his Siegfried to fly above the ocean's water before going straight for the sky. "this is what I call fast!"

"Hayate! Be more serious! We're going to start training!" Mirage called out on the comms as the female Half Zentradi Pilot is flying by in her unit with Chuck's nearby.

"I know! But give me some slack! The Captain's Siegfried is way better than my old one!" said Hayate as his Siegfried transforms into Battroid Mode and started spinning in the sky in some sort of dance before it flew away in Fighter Mode. "I might want to keep this one!"

"you can keep it if you survive this flight training." Said Scarlet on Hayate's comms before five V-9 Ghost units flew in the air and started firing paintball bullets at the three pilots.

"wow!" Hayate quickly turned his Siegfried as he dodged the paintballs.

"it's time to start." Said Scarlet as the V-9 Ghost units flew in formation before they disperse. "I've set them to simulation AI mode, time limit is 60 minutes. Remember to use your new formations."

"roger" Mirage replied before taking a deep breath and sighs. "lets go! Formation Heracles!"

"right'o!" "got it!" Chuck and Hayate replied before the three Siegfried flew in formation and then dispersed.


While the three pilots had their flight training, we turn our attention to Elysion's command center base where Ken with Arad, Kaname, and Ernest are having a long-distance communication line with Hermann on Windemere.

"according to the information we got from interrogating him, there were several data about the Star Singer within every Protoculture Ruins. He was planning to get the rest of the coordinates of some area." Said Hermann in the communication line.

"anything else?" Ken asked as Hermann shakes his head.

"seems that this Ronald Valan is a henchman of a subordinate to another unknown individual." Hermann replied while crossing his arms. "matters of it aside, I have given you the promised information as to the deal. We, Aerial Knights of Windemere will no longer deal with Delta platoon and Walkure's actions. The NUNS will fall sooner or later."

"I understand," said Ken before the communication line was disconnected and ended.

"Ronald Valan is working for someone, huh?" said Arad while scratching his chin. "just who could be hiding in the shadows and making the moves?"

"there're so many questions with no answers given" Kaname stated with a serious face.

"Lady M knows that there is an enemy, yet she doesn't know of it," Ernest added in before looking at Ken. "Captain Siriunis, what do you think?"

"who knows?" Ken replied while shrugging his shoulders. "for all I know and the information that I've gathered, it doesn't give so much info on our mysterious enemy who is targeting Mikumo."

"since the members of this unknown enemy are mostly derived from former NUNS officers. We can assume that there's a connection with them." Said Arad as Ken nodded before Scarlet appeared on the main monitor's screen.

"just got a word from Lady M, Ken." Said Scarlet before showing several images of a planet and its city upon it "There's someone we need to find at Planet Eden."

"Planet Eden? That's nearly 100 light years away." Said Arad to Scarlet who nodded before she snapped her fingers and showed photos of a middle-aged woman who has scarlet red hair and ruby red eyes.

"she's…." said Kaname as Scarlet nodded.

"her name is Scarlet Retran, retired NUNS Major Officer, former scientist and she's the one who created me." Said Scarlet before looking at Ken who looks at the photo of the woman. "and the widowed wife of the real Ken Siriunis."

Arad sighs a bit as Ken had told only Mikumo, Kaname, Arad, and Ernest about the fact that he was a clone just like the Mysterious Venus and everything about himself. The things were a bit bumpy in understanding how Ken is a clone and everything, but they were slowly calming down to an understanding.

"why do we need to find her?" Ken asked Scarlet who showed a message from Lady M.

"Lady M believes that whoever is after Mikumo is an old acquaintance of Scarlet Retran, it said." Said Scarlet as the message is as given. "she believed that the only one who can find our enemy is her and only her."

"I understand." Said Ken as he nodded before sighing. "I can also ask her about myself too."

"better tell the others about this, Captain." Said Arad to Ken. "they will want to know the truth later on, you know?"

"I know" Ken replied before he sighs.


The small meeting ended as Ken is now walking on the town's street to head back to the dorm. The man walks silently while passing by the people while his attention is to the information of Protoculture that is showing up in the screen of his artificial right eye.

"Al-Shahal, Voldor, Ragna, Windemere, and every other planet on the solar system together" said Scarlet as she showed Ken a 3D scale image of all planets in the Brinsgr Global Cluster System while aligning themselves with 2 scales of pyramids. "you got yourself a way to control the whole systems with the Var, right?"

"the information of the coordinates that we obtained were all from Voldor, and Ragna. that would leave Al-Shahal's ruins and the rest, right?" said Ken to Scarlet while walking with slow steps.

"yeah, but the coordinates that we have now are like partial." Said Scarlet as she showed a screen filled with coordinates that are missing only half of itself. "got to think of the right planet that has the information that we need."

"researching for the information directly from the Protoculture Ruins can take days, weeks, or even months," Ken muttered with a sigh as he checks information of the remaining Protoculture Ruins that are within several planets.

"if I remember correctly, my creator also was a Protoculture Specialist, right?" said Scarlet to Ken. "maybe when we got to Planet Eden, we can ask her if she knows anything of what we know."

"yeah" Ken replied before his mind remembered the scarlet haired woman who appeared in his dream a month ago. 'that woman too was a Protoculture Specialist…'

"Ken" someone called out as Ken stops walking and researching about the Protoculture ruins before he turns and sees Mikumo coming to him.

"Mikumo" Ken greeted Mikumo with a smile as the Mysterious Venus stands beside him and intertwined hands before the two started walking back to the dorm.

Mikumo leans her head against Ken's right shoulder, their fingers intertwined closely.


Night soon comes for Ragna, every member of Walkure and Delta Platoon are gathered back in the dorm.

Chuck, Mirage, Mikumo, and Freyja are in the kitchen, the four seems to be baking an apple pie together. Mikumo washes the apples, Freyja peels them, Mirage cuts them, and Chuck makes the dough for the pie. Makina and Reina were playing around with Qlulu and Don. Hayate with Arad and Kaname are sitting by the couch and watching Ken who is getting the right part of his face maintenance by a RAFAH unit.

The RAFAH unit's mechanical hands carefully take off the bio-suit that is covering the mechanical facial features of Ken's face as the Bio suit parts had started to stop working and need to get changed.

"no matter how many times I see it, it's kinda gross," said Hayate with a disturbed face.

"then don't look" Scarlet told Hayate while the RAFAH is giving maintenance to the mechanical parts of Ken's face right area. "as much as anyone had wanted, Ken didn't want to have a face like this."

"Scarlet" Ken spoke out as Scarlet focuses on giving his face maintenance.

"still though, to know that Kenken is a clone like Kumokumo and a 19 year old clone? That's a big surprise that any one of us could receive" said Makina as she and Reina come by and leans on the couch behind Kaname. "I keep wondering if you really are a clone."

"we can do a blood check, DNA proves everything," said Reina while taking a syringe out of nowhere.

"don't even try it, Reina" Kaname told Reina with a bit of a stern voice.

Ken told everyone of him being a clone to every point of a secret that he has on him. that was all he gave to the point to have everyone's full understanding of what he is.

Scarlet finished up the maintenance on the right side of Ken's face as the man checks his face and sees that it was coated in a hologram of his own face that covers it before the mechanism started to buzz in static.

"what's wrong?" Arad asked seeing what is happening.

The RAFAH unit started doing another maintenance as the hologram coating of Ken's right side face disappeared.

"talk about a waste of money," said Scarlet as the RAFAH unit's mechanical hands pulls out a microchip from a small server board in the right robotic side of Ken's face. "that Turnald got to keep up with the whole update part. This microchip's inputted camouflage system just went haywire."

"is it supposed to break so easy?" Kaname asked as the RAFAH unit gave another maintenance to Ken's face.

"only if it's a damn junk." Scarlet replied. "looks like you got to stay with this face till we can get something to cover it, Ken."

"fine" Ken replied as he holds a hand to the right side of his face and caresses it. "I got used to having this face."

"isn't that fine?" Hayate asked Ken. "it's not like we're disturbed by it."

"wouldn't that be surprising?" said Ken in reply while having a small smile.

"pie is ready!" Chuck called out as the group at the kitchen watches the Ragnan chef takes out two baked fresh apple pies from the oven.

Everyone went to the dining table as they had an apple pie dinner together.


The time is already night, we turn our attention to Mikumo's room as Ken is also inside. The man's old room was used up by Reina and Makina as a special hacking room and the mess inside was too much. Instead, he is sleeping with Mikumo who didn't mind having him inside.

Ken sat on the bed as he is looking at his artificial limbs, his metal arm's hand and forearm area spins counter-clockwise before its fingers showed many forms of tools from wrenches to a nail clipper that Ken didn't have any idea why it was put inside.

"that Berger think up of some weird ideas." Said Ken as he checks his metal arm before to his right leg that showed a hidden compartment for a gun to be stored inside. "at least some is useful."

Scarlet's image appeared in Ken's right eye's screen as she brought a file in her hands.

"just got word from military security cameras on Planet Eden. Looks like our visit for my creator changed course to Al-Shahal." Said Scarlet while showing photos of Scarlet Retran boarding a ship that is designated to go to Al-Shahal. "seems like she's going on a vacation or something."

"can you track on where she might be heading?" Ken asked and Scarlet replied while shaking her head.

"it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack." Scarlet replied. "everything looks so simple, yet her movement is all randomly made. Can't predict where she might be going. But I'm betting the Protoculture ruins."

"what makes you say that?" Ken asked.

"she's my creator and I'm like her daughter." Scarlet replied. "there's the whole thing of daughter's intuition on their mother, right?"

"I see" Ken replied before he felt a pair of hands circling around his neck from behind as Mikumo hugs him from behind.

"I'll be leaving to check on the VFs on Elysion. Better not get naughty you two lovebirds" said Scarlet in a sing song before she disappeared and left Ken to be with Mikumo who pulls him down to the bed.

"did Scarlet come to report to you of something?" Mikumo asked while laying her head on Ken's right shoulder while her right hand is on his chest.

"Scarlet Retran, Scarlet's creator or mother is on her way on vacation to Al-Shahal" Ken stated while holding Mikumo close by her waist. "the mission just got updated, that's all."

"I see" Mikumo replied as she closed her eyes and just rests on the man's shoulder.

Ken smiled before he looks at the door, he lifted his left arm, and two small rocket pods opened. The man could hear some small rambling footsteps getting away from the door as he could tell that a certain duo of Walkure got curious for their own care.

"seems that Makina and Reina just love doing this ever since we started sleeping together, huh?" Mikumo whispered while still resting on Ken's right shoulder then moved to lay her head on his chest.

"privacy is always needed with a couple after all" Ken replied while making the rocket pods on his metal left arm disappear. The man turns and pulls Mikumo close before pecking her forehead. "if we don't have privacy, can I do that?"

"perhaps" Mikumo replied with a small giggle and her lips formed in a soft loving smile.

Ken reached his left arm up and did a finger snap, the room's lights turned off and went dark for the two occupants to get some good night sleep.


That's a wrap!

Bye bye