It was May time now. Once I've introduced the other two pilots to the squad, making the total composition of five. I've begun to institute systems that'll work for their well being and readiness, including a slot in the daily routine for them to have at least two hours of exercise. And some other things to make sure they're prepared for what we've asked to do by those I technically listen to. While also, I decided to stay on the codename of Ray Hoffes.

-Stanislav Ivanov


Earth

May 5, 2076, 10:10 A.M KST

Lieutenant's Quarters, MEKA Base, Busan

"Come on... Win the game... Aschlil.." he'd mumble, leaning slightly forward in the quarters' desk towards the holographic TV projector he had activated.

Within the same screen, multiple variables came into play throughout. Players moved like flexible chess pieces throughout the screen. While Stanislav paid attention to his rooted team's strikers. His hopes remained, until the maximum minutes in a football game expended themselves.

"Goddammit..." he grunted.

Leaning back to normal, he kept his attention to the post-game for at least a little, until reverting fully back to his normal lieutenant work. Whilst cursing himself over the outcome and how they could've done it better.


10:15 A.M KST

Pilot's Quarters, MEKA Base, Busan

The quarters for the pilots, compared to the other personnel but a tad lower when compared to the lieutenant and captain's quarters, held the luxuries and necessities for the backbone of Shooting Star's offensive capabilities, their five pilots. On the leftwards flank lied a pair of bubble sofas with a deployable table in between. Nearby and pegged to the horizontal surface held five color-coded doors with keycard inserts. Having one door that's green, yellow, blue, red, and pink.

Kyung-soo lowered to leaned on one of the couches with a cold towel over his forehead, "God... That heat surge caught me off guard."

"Honestly, I could've expected that too," Seung-hwa stated as he sat next to Kyung-soo, sweating too.

"You're a drag, Kyung-soo-ya." said Yuna as she came back with a bottle with a drink with electrolytes in them.

"Yuna-ya's right, you're complaining so much that you're only strong within professional gaming." Hana joined in with Yuna as she walked in from outside.

"Explain why you both suffer during the winter while I don't? Hana-ya, Yuna-ya!" Kyung-soo retaliated in a playful voice.

During it all, Kyung-soo took his glasses off due to the accumulating sweat against the sleeves of what he wore during their exercise routine. Hana got a fan from her quarters and turned it on into high. Yuna did nothing, except drinking from the sports drink she got. Both females of the squad wore similar exercise clothes of a tank top and shorts. Possibly due to them being close to each other.

"Back at your rivalry again?" Seung-hwa said, carrying a slight console inside with Jae-eun.

"No one getting hurt at all, except the money of their victories in esports," Jae-eun said, having a slight smug. "Either way, someone's gonna suffer now that summer is coming. Much like the anime season in Japan is about to become..."

"True, just wait until the next heatwave when they decide to come and attack," Seung-hwa said too, resting his legs after standing for a bit.

"Our majority of free time's here now. What's our plan for today?" Kyung-soo asked as he bent over and got his glasses back to his face.

Jae-eun blinked, smearing away the sweat that got on near his eyes, "I guess you want to go into town, once Lieutenant Hoffes approves of it?"

"I want to buy more accessories for the console and our rec room out of our own pockets. I guess so. But Yuna's all persistent that I don't support Kyung-soo like if we were still at it a year ago." Hana shrugs a little.

"He's still being able to rival us, even though we have to work together, still!" Yuna raised her voice, almost about if she lost her cordiality as a result.


10:45 A.M KST

Roof of the MEKA Base

A lone worker with a toolbelt and a device in her hand tugs it, gripping a claw into the steel handle of a block also made of steel. Slowly separating it from the roof. Facing the East China Sea and its gentle waves.

However, in the same sky, a light blue techo swirl with what could've been debated to be lines of code and words opened up, slowly spreading out until realing a certain size for a large vehicle to come out from it. Eventually bringing about something popping out of it and falling from the sky.

"What in the..." she wondered, before deciding to tell about it, "SIR!"

"This is Lieutenant Hoffes, what is it?" Stanislav said as he noticed the tension in the worker's voice.

"Something's falling from the sky from what appears to be a space-time rift!" the worker said frantically.

"What does that rift look like?" he asked again.

"Blue, technological appearance... And what looks to be a human falling straight for the water...

"While I'm not the dispatcher, the coast guard is being notified, disregard your current assignment and help save that girl."


10:51 A.M KST

East China Sea off the coast of Busan

"HELP ME!" shouted a girl falling from the sky as two coast guard vessels assembled from iron approached the site.

She waved her arms in distress. Although boats already knew she'll need some help.

"I'M FALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLING INTO A LAKE!" said the girl again, bracing to slam hard into the water in a bodyslam.

Landing to earth on any kind of level was in fact, slamming her entire front part of her person into the sea. Before her panicking revived as she let out an updraft of saline fluid, further attracting boats and a helicopter to rescue her.

"I'M GONNA DROWN AND DIE! HELP ME!" she pleaded again.

Until one of the boats sent out a pontoon to do just that, rescuing her from the immediate threat before one of the choppers brought her to a hospital within the city.


12:07 P.M KST

A Hospital in Busan

Interior

Walking into a hallway to the emergency room inside, Stanislav held in a thin briefcase as he progressed deeper to where he was looking towards.

"What bed is the girl from the portal at?" he asked in a serious voice with an accomplice.

"Right over here..." the accomplice said out, guiding Stanislav further.

As they reached the room, dragged out hertzes as a result of the monitor-display showing vitals held on a shallow stick. Slowly revealing to a lightly sleeping person in the body of a small girl. Lilac shaded hair with heavy ruffles and a light sleeping face and a few bangs.

The appearance of the person's hair already got Stanislav anxious. Spawning goosebumps already.

"We've also found two things on this person's hair when she was recovered from the coast."

Stanislav looks over.

What they've implied was two hair clips in the shape of a medical cross but in white with purple details from the middle circle. Spaced lines within the middle of each cardinal space from the center. Similarly within a video game console.

"No... Is this a reality... It all came down... Is that... Her?" Stanislav said, shaking to the beep of the EEG.

"Is there something wrong?" asked the guy who went with Stanislav.

"Do you have the name of her?" he asked.

"No... But why is this patient disturbing you?"

Stanislav kept quiet about why. Keeping himself observant as he checked her at least a little bit without going around being a perv. Since he was done with that phase of shitdoing. Accidentally making her move.

"Lieutenant Hoffes, what is with you and that patient?"

"If my assumptions are correct, she isn't from here. At all," he responds.

Soon, the person Stanislav flinched in front of slowly opens her eyes. Revealing a deep purple-hued iris. Shocking him even more so than before.