I zipped up my special protective vest, and my circuits clicked as they detected the D-Parts.  It had been an hour since the explosion on Ragol's surface and the government had issued a notice to all the hunters on Pioneer 2.  They wanted for them to attend a huge meeting regarding the events of the surface.  It made sense too why they would be asking for the Hunters help, most of the military and weapons were on Pioneer 1, and the only people with good skills, smarts, and strength to even attempt an investigation would be the Hunter's of Guild.  I wasn't really worried about that.  The government could wait.  I wanted to find out what happened to my creator.  I didn't care how I would find out, I just would!

"Beep… What's wrong?  You're crying…"

I looked to my side as my RoboChao mag had woken up.  It was flying right above my left shoulder.  Mags can only speak by uses set of beeps for words.  I, being an android, could hear what my mag said all the time and my systems made it sound like English to me.  I quickly rub away my tears from my optic units as I looked at my mag.

"I was so close to meeting him!" I exclaimed.

My mag stood there it was for a while but nodded, as it understood.

"Beep… You feel robbed, cause your chance to met him was taken away…"

I wish sometimes my mag wasn't so smart, he had a great IQ rating.  He understood be all to well, and always had a way to putting out small fact to help me out when I was down.  It was very true to say that a mag is a Hunters best friend, not because of the powerful Photon Blast it collects but the companion it can be for you.  I smiled as once again my mag nailed it on the top, the feeling.

"Yes, I do… but this time…"

I slowly picked up my red mechguns and slid them into a set of holsters that was right above my trap wings on my back.  The two small extensions on my back held traps for my use, and right above them were my holsters for my mechguns.

"I can fight it."

I remembered last time carefully, right when Pioneer 1 launched.  I begged to see my creator and complained like a little girl to meet him before he left.  He had agreed and we set a place to met, right on the boarding ramp to Pioneer 1.  I waited and waited, and he never came.  It was only shortly before lift off that one of his lab technicians found me still waiting, and delivered his note explaining he had to do something for the government and how sorry he was for not getting to see me, and that's when he gave me the double saber as a gift to make up for his breaking my promise.  I held the lower part of my leg and felt that my double saber was still there.  I quickly raised up my arm to check if my Protect Barrier was functioning, a small little device strapped on every hunters arm with a few seconds long shielding system, enough to block most of any attack.  It checked out ok, it looked a little worn but over-all in good condition.

BUZZZZ!

I turned around as someone was ringing her room number.  She walked over to the COM unit near the door as she thought about who it could be.  She didn't have many friends and the few she did have were on Pioneer 1.  She pushed the talk button in.

"Who is it?"

This was an older model building, cheap construction of Pioneer 2.  The newer builds had a video system that allowed you to see the person before you even had to talk, but because lack of time the builders of Pioneer 2 were forced to use outdated methods to make the time constraint on construction.  The voice that replied was simple and clear.

"Viper, who else?"

I always wanted to know his real name.  Viper was a HUmar Hunter, basically a human hunter that uses swords mostly.  He met me awhile back when I was training hard with my double blades.  I was determined to become just as good with my double saber, as my aim was with my guns.  Viper saw this, he though it amusing that I was trying to do that, but with a little training I bested Viper with my sabers in training.  We have been close friends ever since, and Viper started to pay more attention to his sword skills then the mesta payment.  We have been friends for over two years now.

"You know my number."

I pressed the release button to open the doors downstairs for him.  The building locks out anyone without a special pass card at specific times, it would unlock in another hour however it was still on the morning cycle currently, locked up till 10:00 AM.  While I waited for Viper, I found my hunters bag and started to throw important items into my backpack, mostly stuff like dimates and a few telepipes as well.

SSSHOOOSSHHH!!

I turned around to see Viper.  His Sange & Yasha in there stealth's, on there respective sides by his waist, his dark blue-ish and purple-ish color made him very easy to spot and his double cannon slung on his backside was on of his favorite weapons.  He had a leg hostler for a gun but it seems he had misplaced his Varista that usually was in the hostler.  I didn't bother to ask where it was.

"You wanted to see me?"

The HUmar gave me a smirk and then slowly walked over to see what I was up to.  I would have told him the truth if he had asked but he like being the type to see for himself.

"You're not planning on setting off all by yourself?"

I was got a little mad, as it was my business on what I do and he wasn't going to stop me.

"And what if I am?" I sharply replied.

Viper smiled and then held out his hand to give something to me.  I picked it out of his hand slowly and looked at it.  It was an ID card, his ID card.  All hunters have ID cards they are given.  If a hunter wants to be found, he can give them their ID card to allow the person to track them or contact them.  It was often called, a Guild Card.

"If you need someone to cover you back on Ragol, I'm there."

He smiled at me, and I found myself getting a little hot in the cheeks as I turned away smiling myself now.  I slowly reached into my back and took out my ID card and gave it to Viper.

"If you need someone to save you're ass, I'm there."

We easily had a laugh at that as another buzz came in but this time it was right outside the door, someone from the complex.

"Coming!" I yelled out.

"Expecting visitors?" asked Viper.

I wasn't expecting visitors, and it puzzled me who it could be this time.

"No I wasn't expecting anyone today."

I got to the door and opened it to see someone I least expected to show up at my door.

"Heya!  I hope you weren't going to leave without me!"

It was Karen.  She was a young Fonewearl, or basically a female Newman spell castor.  The Newman's were a race gifted in the use of techniques and often had unpredictable life spans.  Many of the Newman's use Anti-aging medication to keep their life span relatively long.  The one thing that made Newman's a little weak, is the fact their body can't handle as much abuse as androids and humans can.  There techniques often required as much fresh air as possible, which may be the reason most forces have much a lot of skin showing.  I felt personally that newmans should wear more clothing but many people would disagree with me on that point.

"Hi Karen… what brings you here?"

She peeked her head inside the door to notice Viper, who just waved, as he didn't know her at all.  My eyes rolled as a few hunters passed by at the same time behind Karen, both HUmars looked right at Karen's ass.  Her weird skirt seemed to have a set half dome shape made it very easy to see her underwear whenever she bent over to much, like now.  I always wondered if newmans even have a sense of decency, even robots don't like walking around without some covering.  The HUmars didn't stick around long as they stopped for a few seconds to look at the view but didn't dare say anything, as her Elysion was across her waist horizontally and her Mahu cards that were on her waistband didn't look to appealing to be at the end of.  I never understood the Mahu cards.  The Mahu are magical cards that return to the castor that use them after attacking the person.  I still however don't know how they cause damage or even for that matter were the power came from.  My guess is that is based on Karen's technique power, but I'm unsure on that part.

"Who's the man?" asked Karen as she pointed at Viper.

"A friend of mine."

Karen and me were very good friends, I usually spent time talking to her over a cup of coffee, while I didn't need food it was nice to just chat about girl things without someone to hear you.  I met her one-day when she got jumped by a gang attempting to try and steal her money and more.  We still fight over whether she really needed my help or not cause she had them on the ropes most of the time, till one got the jump on her.  I managed to lay in a nice shot with my mechguns, and they quickly fled, ever since then she's been like a close friend to me.  She taught me much on how to act more 'normal' then anything else.  Viper had already walked over to Karen while I was thinking.

"My name is Viper, yours?" questioned Viper.

"Me?  The name is Karen, and if I catch you looking anything below my face I will be sure to Foie your ass!" replied Karen.

Karen took it very personal when anyone looks below her neck, or below the belt.  She managed to get banned out of one coffee shop cause she thought the clerk was looking at her underwear.  She used Rafoie on him, an explosion fire technique, it damaged so much stuff that Karen spent almost a whole month attempting to get the mesta to pay for damages.  I personal felt it funny that Karen was treating Viper with Foie, a basic fireball spell.  Viper thought so too as he just laughed and looked Karen right in the face.

"You got attitude!  I was just here giving Saria my card."

Viper turned and looked at me and gave a way as he walked out, almost knocking Karen out of the way in the process.

"See you down at the meeting, Saria!"

He slowly walked down the hall as Karen watched for a quick second and then bent over into my room and said in a low tone of voice.

"He doesn't look like a nice guy to me, keep your eye on him."

I laughed, not only cause of the fact I would trust Viper with my hardware but because as she was speaking he was at the lift looking right down at her underwear.  Karen wheeled around to see this, her face going red with anger as she did.

"YOU!" screamed Karen.

Viper gave an evil smile as he quickly sidestepped into the lift and the doors quickly shut behind him.  Karen was flaming mad, but I was laughing so hard that I almost forgot about the meeting that was starting in one hour, and almost enough to forget about Ragol.