Chapter 3

Colonel caught the pillow and sighed to himself. He set the thing down and walked out of the door quietly, while asking himself why he tried at all.
Nova curled up on her bed in the fetal position, silent.

Around 11:00am that day, everyone in the lounge could hear Two's discussion with Knyght.
"Nova's still locked in her room, think we ought to steal the DDR machine in the lounge fer the afternoon?" Two asked. Knyght shrugged.
"No idea. She's snapped the head off of anyone within 5 feet of her door... Disturbingly. Stealing DDR and playing it in your room might be kinda suicidal. I wonder wazzap." Knyght said. Two shrugged.
"Haven't a clue. And asking might involve pain. I don't like pain."
"Me either..."
Trigger raised an eyebrow from where he stood near the door. 'What could be the matter with Nova...?' Trigger set out for Nova's room, just too curious as to what was bothering his friend to keep away -- even if it was for his own safety.
The Hunter alarms suddenly went off as Dr. Cain's voice came over the Intercomm.
"Attention all Maverick Hunters, Attention! The City is under Maverick Attack! All Maverick Hunters report to the city at once! I repeat..." Before Cain could continue, Nova dashed by Trigger, already prepared to battle. In an instant, she vanished in a column of Turqious.
"Whoa, what the hell?!" Trigger blinked a few times before heading to retreive his pistols and get ready to get the hell out there.

When the Hunters arrived, a younger Maverick, a drone, smirked.
"Well Well... Too late I see.... I'll let you find my... Toy..." The Maverick cackled and vanished as he teleported.
"..Toy...?" Nova blinked. Two glanced around then bugged.
"Oh. Oh SHIT!" She was staring right at a bomb. "This ain't cool...."
"Awshit, this is BAD! I don't know JACK about bombs..." Muttered Trigger. His unit had been split up and sent in different areas. Torch, the bomb expert of the 21st would probably had no problem at all with a bomb like this... but he wasn't here.
"Anyone know anything about bombs?!"
"I might know enough to shut it down. If not, well... Work on getting the Civilians out of here." Nova said softly. Two blinked.
"OK... Well, let's get to work!" Two and Knyght meandered to work while Nova began examining the bomb.
Trigger ran off after Two and Knight, not noticing that his armor trim was starting to turn a deep blue color....
Two scrambled after Trigger, blinking.
'What the hell's with his armor?' She thought softly. She ignored the reply in her head as she kept up, shooing Knyght to another sector.

Nova studied the bomb carefully, opening it.
"What color wire is it again...?" Nova wondered aloud, preparing to deactivate it. "One wrong move and we're screwed... Ah! The red one!" Nova carefully reached in to disconnect it.

"I don't see anyone around here, Two..." Trigger was still oblivious to the unstable flux of his armor's trim between gold and deep blue. After a bit, the flux stopped at deep blue, and Trigger answered his own question with a slightly deeper voice.
"Then keep looking, you shaded idiot. Get them out of here already!"
"...Aw, fook." Two said.
"Well, it's not like they listen, you know." The words came from Two, but, it didn't seem like Two at all.
"Tell me about it... Sometimes I don't think Triggy here listens to me at ALL." Trigger's armor trim flashed back to golden, and his face took on a slack jawed expression of shock.
"Who the bloody HELL?!" This time, his armor didn't change color like before, and the same voice answered back.
"Well, that answeres THAT. What the hell took you so long to frikkin' hear me finally?"
"Welcome to my world, Trig. Trust me. It's no walk in the park." Two said dryly.
"....I resent that."
"...Shut up, Nemesis."
"Farg you too."
"Well aren't you charming, young lady..."
"Oh please just SHUT UP, whoever you are.."
"My name is REPULSE, idiot."
"... Aw crap."
"Yeah, I love you too."

"Ooooh, Repulse. Cute name." Nemesis, obviously. Two looked.. Disgusted.
"Trigger? Mind shooting me?"
Trigger didn't get a chance to reply as there was a resulting boom from where Nova was.
"......Nevermind."
"Flashy..."
"... Aw crap... Nova!"
Trigger bolted off back in the direction Nova had been in as fast as his legs would carry him. Nova sat, slightly blackened on the ground, slightly rubbing her jaw. There was plently of damage all over her body. Two blinked.
"Good armor." She said, wide eyed. Nova only nodded.
"I'll say... How badly damaged are you, Nova?"
"......" Nova gave him a slight glare but didn't reply, still rubbing slightly.
"Trigger, you IDIOT. She can't frikken TALK." This time Trigger's armor changed color yet again to blue trim, and Repulse took over for the moment. Nova jumped to her feet, both hands on her multitool. Her jaw was open, as if in slack jawed surprise, bled like the rest of her injuries. She gave Repulse a questioning, wary look. Repulse pulled out his com device and turned it on. After a small cough, he spoke into it with Trigger's Voice.
"This is Trigger, requesting a medical pickup at these coordinates." After he input the coordinates, he closed up the com device and put it away. Another cough, and he was speaking in his usual voice.
"Suprised, Nova? Yeah, your buddy has a bit of company sharing his headspace. And he never knew till today." He smirked somewhat evilly as Trigger managed to jerk back control over his own body.
"Okay... This is much to odd for me..."
"You get used to it, Trigger." Two patted his back. "Even the kinky subliminal messages."
Nova looked positively disgusted. 'Someone just shoot me now...' She thought to herself.
"Well, I guess we gotta wait for someone to show up so we can get the hell out of here..." Trigger thought out loud.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"Shut up, Repulse."
"Make me."
"....."
Two sighed.
"Men... Oi."
"I dunno, Repulse is cute."
"Screw off, Nemesis."

"I think I'll pass the time revealing some secrets about you, Triggy."
"You wouldn't DARE!"
"Actually, I would."

Nova finally gave a whimper, holding her jaw shut again, wishing like all hell she could make the lot of them shut up. Before Repulse could utter a word, Colonel faded into veiw, with his rather strange Teleport.
"My word... What the blazes happened he --" His speech just cut off when he saw Nova. Nova facepalmed.
'This is the last thing I need right now...' Nova thought, irritably. Colonel blinked and picked up Nova quickly.
"I'll take you to get fixed up. The both of you," He pointed at Trigger and Two. "Tell Dr. Cain that I've taken Nova to the Repliforce medical facility." With that, he pressed a button on his belt, and both he and Nova were gone.
Two looked at Trigger.
"Should we fetch the hyper one and tell Cain?" She asked. "I mean, I'm NOT arguing with that guy. Too big."

Meanwhile, Nova struggled as much as she was able, casting a glare of 'LET GO OF ME!' Colonel didn't even budge with her struggles.
"I'm taking you to be repaired. Would you rather stay damaged than be repaired?"
"...." Nova shook her head, stopping. A medical unit finally stepped into veiw.
"Sir?" He sweatdropped.
"I need some doctors NOW. This lady needs repairs, on the double!"
"Sir!" The Reploid saluted and ran for the medical bay. After a few minutes, Nova was being examined on a table. She kept eying them warily and edged away when they got their tools near her.
"...."
Colonel looked in on the room and groaned mentaly.
"Nova, Shut down for a while so they can fix you... please?"
"....." Nova gave an irritated look of defeat before finally settling down as the doctors set to work. After a couple hours, one toddled over.
"Blue, red, black, or white?" He asked. Colonel blinked.
"Blue, red, black, or white, WHAT?" He had no idea what they were referring to.
"There was extensive damage to the jaw mechanism. What color do you think the jawbrace should be, sir?"
Colonel nodded as realization struck him. "I suppose a light blue would be a good idea...."
"Yes, sir." The doctor scurried back as theyfinished. They cleared out as Nova began coming back online.
"Itai.." Nova rubbed her jaw.
"Are you alright now...?" Asked Colonel. Nova nodded.
"I hate Bombs."
'You and me both....' Colonel decided not to voice his thought, nonetheless.
"I can see why."
Nova looked at Colonel then smiled.
"Thank you... I'm sorry about earlier."
"It's alright...."
"No.. I shouldn't have gotten angry. I just.... I don't trust many people."
"It's understandable, I suppose... I'm sorry for bothering you the past few days as well."
"....Days?" Nova sweatdropped. "Were you the one e-mailing me those weird letters?"
"No..."
"....Dude. We only met yesterday. Remember?"
"Three days ago."
"THREE? I'm not asking then... I might've slept a day. I gotta get plastered better."
"Yes, well..." Colonel bowed slightly. "I have to be going... I suppose I shall see you again."
"It was good seeing you...Thanks." Nova smiled meekly.
"It was good to see you too..." Colonel smiled and walked out of the room, feeling a little better than he had before. Nova got to her feet and punched MHHQ's coordinates into her teleporter before vanishing in a stream of turqoise.

"So, Trig, how long've you had this skitzo thing?"
"Little brother, I don't KNOW! How many times do I have to tell you?"
Two sweatdropped at them both. 'Siblings...' Quietly, she glanced at the incoming beam of turqouise that graced the area. Two raised an eyebrow as Nova materialized, rubbing her jaw.
"This thing feels screwy as hell."
"Hi, Nova!" It was a 5'10", red haired blue and white armored reploid. "Where'd you get the brace?"
"A Bomb, Repliforce, and a pretty coo' Brit."
"GASP. What's this? Nova taking to a 'foriegner'?" Mocked the other reploid. Trigger groaned mentally at this.
"Yes, I talk to ONE Giajin." Nova snorted as Two glared. "..OK, two. SO?"
"Riiiight..." The other reploid got up next to Nova. "So who is it?"
"Who? Who do you mean?" Nova blinked. "I'm lost."
"Who's the "coo' brit" You mentioned?"
"Sore wa himitsu desu no da."
"Dammit."
Nova stretched happily, humming Ale Japan. Two raised an eyebrow, smirking.
"Nemesis says Nova fluffed someone." Two said.
"...F**k you, Nemesis..." Nova growled. Trigger suddenly fell over backwards and made a choking noise.
"Repulse, you pervert!"
"What'd he say?" Two asked.
"Something about Nova and that Colonel fellah having some 'private time' in her room." Trigger looked like he was trying to push the image out of his mind.
"...Can I kill him?" Nova looked at the blue-clad Reploid.
"No, you may not kill him. That's still my brother, Nova."
"Oh. Off to get smashed then." Nova turned around.
"Mind if I come with? I haven't hit the bars in a good long time."
"Nope. C'mon." Nova headed for the bar. The blue reploid smiled and followed along behind, leaving Two and Trigger, (And respectively, Nemesis and Repulse,) to their own devices.

Two looked at Trigger and smiled.
"Doing OK over there?"
"Sorta.... Getting used to someone sharing your headspace is kinda odd...." Trigger pulled off his cap and glasses after a moment and rubbed his face with his hand.
"It took me a little while after I found out, but atleast it means I don't have Nemesis taking as much control as she did before."
"Dammit."
"... Repulse, you're a hentai bastard. Shaddap!"
Two rubbed the back of her head.
"Actually... Nemesis was a murderer."
"Oooooh, kinky."
Trigger had a look that read something akin to, 'Dear God just KILL ME NOW!' on his face. Two smiled and smooched Trigger on the cheek.
"It'll be OK, Triggy."
Trigger flushed a bright red and nodded slightly. "Thanks, Two...."
"Your welcome. Anytime."
"TWO AND TRIG GO IN CLOSET, MAKE BEBBIES!" Trigger just fell over backwards.
"Don't make me put you in a Metool with Nemesis, bitch." Two growled at Repulse.
"Meep." Repulse gave up total controll and let Trigger handle Two. He was scared of her. Two just glomped Trigger happily. Trigger blinked a couple times at the action... then melted and glomped her back. 'Hey... This is fun.' Trigger thought to himself. Two snugged.
"Whatcha wanna do?"
"Watch some anime or DDR?"
"OK."

"Whee...!" Nova and her companion where both smashed heavily on sake. "I haven't gotten this much of a buzz in a long time, Nova!"
"Ain't Sake the shit, Boomer? I feel HAPPY!"
"Hell yeah!" replied Boomer, her blue clad friend. "Now... to get SMASHED! Whee!"
"You mean passed-out smashed!? WOOOOHOOOOOOO!"
Most people shuddered at NS' cheer and hid. About then, a familiar white reploid stepped in. Colonel looked around -- and sighed when he saw Nova and Boomer. Nova grinned at Boomer.
"Atleast one good thing came of the Dr. Wily shiyet. We get back together, we have fun SOMEHOW. Smashed, but fun. Wanna mock some other Hunters after this?"
"Suuuuure!" Boomer chugged back another glass of Sake as Colonel walked up to the two of them. Nova sipped a bowl of sake.
"We still have to find the others. And help Ken remember us, no da. And PLEASE remember Sake is normally in a bowl, onegai."
"Right... But I like it from a glass!" He sipped at his sake, and smiled. "Heck, once we get Ken to remember us, maybe that nutty thing in his head'll go poof!"
"Maybe we'll find Bro and Sis, too. Damn that Dr. Wily. Dink... He tried breaking us apart. I wonder where 'Tou-san is?"
Boomer nodded and chugged another glass of Sake.
"Ahem..." It was Colonel. Nova twisted in her seat and grinned.
"Hiiii! Wanna join in?"
Colonel shook his head. "No, thank you... that's quite alright... Mind if I sit with you anyways?"
Nova grinned, a bit tipsily, and patted the stool next to her hsppily, nodding at the same time.
"We were talking about our quest!"
"For?" Colonel sat down in said stool, turning his attention to Nova.
"Fixing my twin's memory and finding our last two siblings. DUH." Nova looked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world as she finished off the Sake Bottle and ordered another.
"Twin?" Colonel was confused by this. Boomer spoke up about then.
"Yeah!"
"Is Triggy." Nova grinned. "Goody!" Nova glomped the new Sake bottle and immediately yoinked off the top and set to work at it.
"I was about to say that..." Muttered Boomer as he chugged the remains of his bottle. Colonel BLINKED at the two. Trigger was her Twin? ... It would certainly account for why the both of them were so WEIRD, but still, that was a little far fetched. They didn't look alike in even the slightest! MAybe one got upgraded differently along the line... Nova sipped her sake calmly, sticking to the bottle now.
"It's only BEEN a hundred or so years since that dink Wily broke us up. And those shithead scientists... Pleh." She laughed. "That Siberia freezing shit's the best thing ever happened to me!"
"... How... nice." Colonel blinked. If he wasn't confused before, he damn well was now. Nova turned to him, flailing.
"NICE!? THOSE BASTARDS ACTED LIKE I WASN'T WORTH ANYTHING!! THEY DIDN'T CARE IF I DIED! NICE MY ASS!!!" Nova flailed her arms upsetly. Colonel jumped, then relaxed when she settled down. Drunks weren't fun, that was for certain.
"No sense living in the past. Bah. Chug time." Nova finally went mute from raving, chugging at the sake bottle as if nursing. Colonel finally took hold of the bottle and pulled it away firmly, and out of Nova's reach. Nova whimpered.
"Don't you drink enough??" Colonel sweatdropped. Nova reached for her sake.
"But.. But..." Nova sniffled.
"Come now, I'm sure you can find something better to do." Colonel tried to be soothing.
"But...!"
"Come on. Right now." Colonel got up, then pulled Nova to her feet. Nova whimpered and reached for her sake. Colonel sighed, took her arm, and they both vanished with a teleport. Boomer blinked at the spot they stood at, snickered, and resumed his own binge.