(I don't own PSO or any characters created by SonicTeam, just my own characters)
CHAPTER 2
Just another day aboard the Pioneer 2...
And a home invasion
As soon as the golden light of the Teleport Stations energies faded, the three youths found themselves surrounded by worried parents. Sarah's father was already barking orders to the soldiers under his command to find whoever had done this to them. David's large family was surrounding him and overwhelming him with hugs and other gestures of affection. Sean's mother and aunt were hugging him. A battle ragged Squall (HUmar, REDRIA) came up through the telepipe line just moments later, rushing straight for the youths and began asking the excitedly about how they had made it through the forest surrounding the Central Dome without any sort of guides, while at the same time, inspecting their newfound weapons and ogling over the Agito that Sarah had found.
After a while, the three families split up, each heading on their way to their respective homes.
"See you later, Sean." Sarah said to him, before she and her father left for their own home.
"So, Squall.....you were trying to find us?" Sean asked the worn Hunter. "Yeah...all three of ya......but I kept getting hung up by some kind of new group......they just kept getting in my way......and then, there was this android-" Squall began to say before being interrupted on the word Android. "Android!? Was it red and white, with nasty looking blades coming out of it's hands?" Sean asked quickly.
Squall looked at the young human with a quizzical look on his face.......
"Yeah.......it was........why?" Squall said, knowing he was treading lethal ground by saying this..........he knew about something pertaining to this....but it was dangerous to even speak of a slight bit of it......there had been....disappearances..... since before he had found out about it.....that was what alerted him to the fact of something being up....
"We saw it." Sean said simply and plainly. "Tell me when we get to where were going........" Squall said to him as he gave a signal to Sean's aunt, who readied her customized WALS-MK2, in a distinctive green color, as opposed to its normal ruddy hue...his mother drew out a Battle Verge.....Squall reached into his pocket, but did not pull his hand out......they continued to walk toward Sean' family's house....
They managed to arrive without incident....but that night.....
As they were waiting for the news to end, a noise erupted from Sean's room.....Squall's MAG, Bhirava, began making screeching sounds...panicking. Sean, more of felt than saw, a photn bolt of hard light shoot past his head, as the heat of it washed over him....He cursed, and on instinct, grabbed his cane from next to him. He felt strange suddenly..........the world slowing around him.....he could see him mother's eyes flaring as she concentrated to hit the intruder with Grants...his aunt was lining up for a head shot from across the room, in the kitchen....but they were both moving so slowly that he could have sat there all day and watched them move an inch....even the intruder seemed to take forever to move even a foot forward, brandishing his scythe with murder in his eyes.....
Sean realized that he could move normally, despite the slowness of all around him. Without really thinking, he ran toward the intruder, clearly a human with the build of a Hunter....a Ranger would have gotten a hit in with whatever gun he had shot at Sean with, but the Scythe was explained by the man's Hunter build......Sean reached him and began hitting the man hard and fast, dashing all around him as fast as he could, hitting hard with the cane, beating the man over the head with it, then across the face, then slapping the flat of it across the man's posterior. The, to finish the job, he ran past him and caught the man in the man-place with the head of the cane as he passed......the world sped up without warning, causing Sean to collide into the wall...the intruder found himself suffering the laws of physics as he was tossed about by the force of many hits that came too quickly to see, including one that hit him in the butt and a final blow that hit him in his man-place when a bolt of hard light caught him in the same place as that last hit, and he found himself hit with a localized casting of Grants in the same place, AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
Alarms rang within the intruder's mind as his vision was flooded with stars and bright lights.....he collapsed to the floor, clutching his man-place and gag-coughing a protest to the mauling of his virility.
"Hmph....that's what happens to people who mess with my family." Sean said to the intruder, just as Squall shot through the door of their house, brandishing his RED SABER heroically and yelling loudly about destroying all evil, once and for all. "You are late." Sean said.
"Darn....I missed the partah!" Squall said dejectedly......His second MAG, Bhirava's twin, spun happily around it's twin, the two MAGs chirping excitedly.
Suddenly, yelling could be heard across the street, at David's house, as every member of his family began to beat down on another intruder.....Sean and his family and Squall looked out the front door, just in time to see the intruder get thrown out a window, as cheering could be heard from across the street.
Sarah's father was chasing yet another attacker, wielding two LK-14 Combats as he bellowed horrific war-cries at the intruder, running after him through the streets......and running the intruder right into the waiting arms of his pursuer's entire squadron he commanded....who promptly arrested the intruder, before arresting the other intruders, who would soon find themselves in a jail cell in the detention block of the ship.
The next day..........
Sean awoke to the scent of bacon.
He dressed and quickly ran to the kitchen to claim his food. Squall was already there, scarfing down his third bowl of cereal. "G'morning." Squall said, as he nabbed the last of the bacon, which was two pieces after Sean was done claiming some of it as his own...which was most of it...in fact, all BUT the final two pieces...."Ya know....I was talking with Elenor earlier today. She had heard my MAGs chatting about something odd you did.......something about moving faster than light or something like that......or maybe it was faster than sound...well, anyway....I was wonderin'....where didja learn how ta do that?" Squall asked Sean out of the blue, as Sean was watching an episode of Virtual-On: ARENA. "I don't really know......it just kind of....happened." Sean said to him.
Squall looked at him funny for a second, then shrugged, but with a sly look on his face....
Sean caught the Pop-Tart as soon as it got within arms reach....then looked at it in shock.....then at Squall, who looked at him with wide eyes....."It happened....again....." Sean said...
The doorbell rang. Both of them jumped in their seats. Sean looked over at the door, and saw Sarah and David waiting for him.....David was registering to become a Force in the Hunters Guild today, and they were coming with him. Sean got up, and crammed the last of the bacon in his mouth....a major feat.....
.Sean set his tray down in the kitchen, and went to his mother's room, then his aunt's room, and after a minute of Good Morning/See you later greetings, "See ya later." he said to Squall, as he ran out the door, hauling his backpack, full of various...stuff, like a drawing pad, colored pencils, Portable Game system..........and his new Cane, strapped to the side of it.....the three of them headed downtown toward the Hunters Guild........
