(This unit does not own PSO or related characters)
CHAPTER 8
The Great Corporate Hunt begins
"Nice to meet you, Metroid-ZERO." Sean said, being the first to approach the Android.
It, no, she nodded in return.
"So....whos after ya?" Squall asked ZERO, or Zee, as he was already thinking of her as.
She looked up toward the sky, toward where she had detected the Pioneer 2. "A corporation specializing in Positronics, Sentinel Electronics, and their partner who specializes in manufacturing of Android and worker unit production, General Aerodyne. (Get it? Sentinel Electronics General Aerodyne S-E-G-A)" She said.
"They produced this unit to use as a prototype for a mass-production model of HighGrade Combat Androids, HUcaseal-Nu. They decided that this unit was no longer needed, and decided to procede with termination. This unit managed to escape however, and has also aquired valuble recon data pertaining to their TRUE goal in the use of these Nu units. They intend to use them in a bid for control of Pioneer 2. SE-GA must be stopped!" ZERO said, emphasising the last comment by forming her left hand into a fist, as she brought it to eye level.
"Alright, anything else we should know?" Montague asked. ZERO shook her head in reply, "No....nothing further." She said.
"Ok, lets get moving. ZERO, where is this SE-GA?" Squall asked. She pionted up toward Pioneer 2. "Roger that. Lets MOVE OUT!" Squall said.
"You may want to hold up for a second........I found that there is something happeneing....something bad." a voice said rom behind them. all but Squall turned around. "Roger that.....how long do you think we have?" Squall asked the Hunter who had arrived just a moment ago......"Adus!" Montague said.
"Not too long, unfortunately.....I will stay here and see what I can do about it. You do whatever you have to do. Just make sure to water the cactus, when you get to the ship." Adus said to Squall. he turned to head into the Monument, then turned his head toward them and regarded them at an angle. "Meet me back here when you are done with your little corporate bashfest, have fun on the hunt, Squall." Adus said and floated back through the open dopors of the Monument.
An hour after they arrived on Pioneer 2......
Sean walked into the kitchen of his house with a bucket of Android armor paint. Squall was washing the dust out of a set of old brushes. ZERO watched them passively, sitting in her chair and alternating between staring at them and playing Chess with Dr. Montague. "Checkmate." she said, moving her knight into the correct position to both attack his king and to expose his king to attack from her Queen as well. He looked for a way out quickly and then, resigned to defeat, leaned his king over on its side. "Good game, Zee!" he said to her. Sean looked at the borad quickly as he set the bucket of paint down, and nearly choked. Not many could beat the Doctor at Chess, aside from Sean himself. Squall always said it was because they both thought out of the normal realm of thinking, in other words, they were both insane, so no one could figure out what they were going to do.
"Got those brushes ready Squall?" Sean asked. "Roger." Squall replyed. They had decided, with ZERO's aproval, that she should be repainted, so that if anyone were to see her, she would not look so like the image in the wanted posters plastered pratically all over the ship.
She walked over to were they had set down sheets of plastic, and extended her arms out. Sean and Squall both took brushes and picked a color, white or grey, and began to paint.
Seans mother walked into the house at that point, and saw them painting an Android. She saw the color cheame, and saw the helmet siting on the counter.....it all looked exactly as that new model HUcaseal-Nu that had escaped. "DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS!?!?!?!" She asked, Battle Verge already in hand. "Don't worry. this is just a friend from my school, she just looks like that one, so were repainting her to avoid confusion." Sarah said smoothly, while the males were still trying to think of anything coherant to say, aside from grunting sounds or a "douuhhh" noise.
Seans mother saw right through it. However, she also had already heard from Elenor earlier on that day, saying that they hd found the runaway unit and it was merely trying to protect itself. She still was a bit steamed that they had just let it right into the house and begun to paint it, with BRUSHES! "That won't work at all!" She said to them. "Sean, get the MAG mantenance kit. It has the right tools to paint with. An Android's outer shell is made of the same material as a MAG's....so the method of aplication will work." Mother said. He had already gotten it by the time she was done explaining why they needed it. "Got it!" he said. She flipped the lid open and grabbed a powersprayer. "Load the paint into this, and use it to pain with, that should work. Brushing doesn't imbed the paint into the metal.
They did as she said, and in just a half hour, the repaint was complete. Squall had erected a mirror from tinfoil for ZERO to see their handiwork with.
"Hmmm....this unit prefered its old coloration, but realizs that this is nesasary until it is safe for this unit to reveil itself." ZERO said.
"Alright then, shall we look for the enemy?" Montague said.
"Roger that, this unit will show you where SE-GA is located, and assist you in rendering them inert." ZERO said to them.
"Come with this unit." She said, as she walked out of the front door.
