Truth Comes Out

It wasn't long after that they had to dispose of one of Siegfried's Fafnir Dragons. The creature had an ability to turn the ground to poison, making everyone take damage for walking on it. Virginia solved that little problem, though. She extended her wings, and flew high up into the air with Jet. He began shooting at it, while she cast some magic, as she didn't need her arms to use spells. Soon, the creature was down. But the others had been wounded from staying on the ground for so long, and they had to go back to Maya to rest up, as Todd had brought a recovery device with him. Once they felt better, the team began to search.

Some time later, they found the device that controlled the nanomachines. Virginia looked at it, and let out a sigh. "Looks like Leehalt did the programming. Like Daddy said, he always was the best in the whole council when it came to unbreakable codes. Sometimes, he made them that way just to make Dad have a lot of trouble accessing important files. They had an argument about it once, and I hid with Elliot and Jet in the specimen chambers to get away from it. Maybe we should just blow it up and save some energy."

"If you do that," Leehalt's voice told them, "You will only release the nanomachines over Filgaia's sky. They're 75% mature, meaning there's only a 25% chance that they won't activate. Personally, I'd like for you to wait for them to mature completely, but I would take that too. The odds are in my favor no matter what. Face it, you've lost." He walked up to them, scowling as he eyed Virginia. Oh how he hated the very existence of that girl. How much it reminded him of the love he'd lost. Leehalt extended his hand, and fired.

The Eliminate Scanner spell hit Virginia, knocking her back. As it did, she let out a scream, it was almost as if it was choking her. Jet didn't doubt he'd laced nanomachines in the spell, hoping to wound the girl even more. He ran over to her, hoping she was alright. Nothing seemed to be broken, the girl was now getting up and breathing easily. They must not have been very mature nanomachines, else they only were to give her a moment of discomfort. It did seem like his style, to make the girl suffer as much as he could.

Jet's eyes suddenly shone with pure fury. He grabbed out Airget-lamh, and began to fire a Gatling attack. Leehalt used Rule of Vengeance in retaliation, knocking Jet back into the ground. Just then, Clive and Gallows ran at Leehalt to attack, thinking both their teammates were down for the count. They didn't know that Virginia had woken up, and she was reaching out for Jet to use Airget-Healing on him. When the two were both better, they stood up, and began to concentrate on their enemy. It was now or never, they had to take the opportunity while he was busy fighting their allies to cast their ultimate attack on Leehalt.

"Dist Dims, Sacred Staff, come to your owner and do her bidding to destroy evil!" yelled Virginia.

Jet exclaimed, "Airget-lamh, Sacred Sword, lend me your power to vanquish my enemies!"

They joined hands, as the staff began to materialize out of Virginia's body, and merge with Jet's ARM. "Guardians, Planet, hear our please. Combine your powers, use them to defend us and the people of this world from those who wish to do them harm. Airget-Cannon!" Suddenly, the great ARM they'd used to beat the Shadow Demon took shape from the two components. They concentrated hard, synchronized their bodies and minds with the new ARM, and fired at Leehalt. He wasn't killed, but he was knocked down.

"Well, that's over," Clive stated, "I don't know what you did, but I'm glad you did it. Now we have an even greater problem. How are we going to rewrite this system, destroy the nanomachines? I must say, you are right Virginia, Leehalt is one great programmer. I cannot make heads nor tails out of this data file."

"Don't look at me, I'm as stumped as the rest of you. This whole thing is like a puzzle, one we have no time to complete. It appears to be held by many locks, and we need to find the keys to each. But how can we locate these keys? That jerk was probably the only one who knew," complained Maya, after looking at the terminal. Clive let out a sigh, if Maya was stumped, even with her techno persona, they were dead.

Virginia stated, "That's where Jet and I come in. We'll use our powers, and destroy the system as we did at Yggdrasil. Remember, Filgaia herself granted us these gifts, and we must use them to save the world." She looked to Leehalt, noticed he was still unconscious, and then walked over to the terminal with Jet. They began to concentrate, and fired the Airget-Beam at the system. Instantly, the nanomachines began to diminish, dying off as Filgaia's purity touched them. They would be useless in Leehalt's plans.

Leehalt had gotten up in time to see this little miracle. "You little brats! You've completely ruined my plan. I know the girl didn't do it alone, her little boyfriend helped her out. Only one other person can do things like that, Adam Kadmon, the Filgaia Sample." He was hoping he could destroy Jet through his mind, to make sure the boy did something like kill himself. That would in turn hurt the others in the team, and give Leehalt a little more time to rethink his plans. But what happened next wasn't what he thought would go on.

"No duh," Jet replied, "Like I didn't know that before. I know how you seven created me in order to test the Filgaia Theory, and I know how Elliot Enduro's son died transferring DNA to my form. You can't hurt me, I'd never listen to you. I know my own worth, thanks to Virginia. As long as she thinks of me as more than just an android, as more than just some experiment, I'll never be hurt by my true identity."

"You never cared about Jet, you wanted to kill him before he was even born. I know, I heard you arguing with Daddy about it. Never once did you look deeper, like Daddy and Uncle Elliot, to see the boy inside of the machine. He has a soul, and is much more human than you were when you still were human. Jet and I would never desert each other, and if you try to hurt him I will kill you right now," Virginia screamed.

Leehalt told her, "Such useless sentiment, just like your father. You know the boy is only a puppet, he would leave you behind if ever ordered to. He's only Werner's little lapdog, only existing to do what his master says. And Werner uses him to give you a friend, since you were a reject even before coming here."

This got both Jet and Virginia mad. So they began to fire another Airget-Cannon off, this one while Leehalt watched, and not behind the others' backs. It struck him dead center, and Leehalt began to fade out. Virginia looked up at Clive and Gallows, and gave them an "I'm sorry" look. "You understand, why we couldn't tell you the whole truth. We were afraid, if the wrong people overheard something might go wrong. I didn't want to see Jet hurt, he was my only friend for years. His ARM, it was made from the Guardian Blade that we learned about in the World's Footprint. He can't wield the weapons made by Demons, because he is of Filgaia. I still don't know why humans can wield them, I guess we should have asked Leehalt. But I know Siegfried will have that answer, we'll just have to wring it out of him when we get there." She looked to Jet, and winked. Feeling a little tired from all the power they'd used, the two of them had to support one another in order to walk. Gallows wanted to laugh at this, but when he saw Jet's eyes he decided against it.

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Teefa's Last Word…

I thought it was really cute to have them work together to kill Leehalt, they would try to defend one another's honor. Jet was mad about what Leehalt had said about Virginia, while Virginia was mad about what he'd said to Jet. If Jet hadn't killed Leehalt in the game, I'm sure Virginia would have leapt on him or something, getting injured but not caring because she was so mad at what he'd said, and then Jet would have to pull her off of him after he'd been killed. Heck, he'd probably would want to get in a few punches himself. Jet was pretty mad about that.