Atlas perched precariously on the roof of Rikani's hut. "Okay, chuck it up now." He called down. A sheet of vivid blue metal greeted his head and knocked him backward in a clatter of sound.

"Oops, hehe. Sorry Atlas." Rikani called up sheepishly. He struggled with the blue-ness and lifted it off himself with much difficulty. He stared at its bright colour for a moment and blanched.

"Geez, is this roof a rainbow or what?" For Rikani had passed him up metal in many different colours and not one of them matched, or even looked vaguely nice together.

"It's all I could get." Rikani protested. Atlas shrugged and switched his arm to flamethrower mode and set the heat for medium and began welding the metal together.

"I still don't know why we didn't do this one first." He grumbled to Rikani. She laughed as she threw a rope up to the roof.

"Because Home is more important that a small shed." She replied as Atlas 'secured' the rope so she could join him. She pulled on the rope to make sure it was secure and it came falling down.

"Atlas, let me up please?"

"Would you like some cheese with that whine?" He joked as he finished fixing the metal. Since staying with Rikani and helping her restore Home, he'd developed a sense of humour, and lost some of his hatred of humans. When Rikani asked about it, he said that technically, she was 'Al Behd', not 'human'.
"'Sides, I'm finished here." He flew down to the young Al Behd. She pretended to glare at him, placing her gloved hands on her hips. Atlas copied the gesture and swayed his hips outrageously. She laughed and slung an arm around his shoulder.

"What would I do without you?"

"You'd prolly be sleeping in that leaky shed and Home would be the way it was before I came." He replied airily, waving his hand dismissively and…humming?

"Atlas, why are you humming?"

"I'm not." The pair looked around for the source of this sound. A huge red ship announced its presence on the horizon with a BOOOM from its cannons.

"That'll be Rikku, so if I were you, I'd change to Daichi mode." She told him as she detached from him and dashed into her hut. "I'm gonna get ready for Rikku and her friends, so can you greet them if they come before I'm ready?" Her voice asked from behind the now locked door. Atlas shrugged and switched modes.

Daichi leaned against a palm tree, watching the large red ship slowly descend on the platform that Rikani had cleared for it a while back. His mind wandered back to the conversation he and Rikani held with regards to him being a robot.

"When we leave Home, and are amongst other Spirans, you'll have to stay in Daichi mode," Rikani said as Atlas passed her a box full of sockets
"The whole machina thing, right?" he replied. She nodded.
"The only way they'd be able to tell that you aren't human when you're Daichi, is if you got cut open or something." She placed the box on a shelf and stretched as she stood up, her arms nearly reaching the ceiling of the small underground cellar that they were stocking up. Atlas stood up, and hit his head on the ceiling and produced a loud bang, being much taller than Rikani. He knelt down and held his head. "Or if something hits your hard head," Rikani laughed, "you won't have to worry about head injuries at least." Atlas shrugged as he rubbed his head – a very odd gesture.
"I'll just have to be very careful then, won't I?"
"Heh, but don't worry. We'll take care of ya!" Rikani flashed him a bright grin and climbed back up the ladder to the sweet sunshine bearing down on the nearly finished structure of Home

Lost in his musings, Daichi didn't notice the ship's ramp come down and its passengers depart the ship. A scary looking lady was first, garbed in a long black dress with belts all across the front, followed by a tall man with orange hair that stuck up in the front. Soon after came a pretty young brunette with a long blue skirt and carrying a staff, supported by a huge blue lion creature with a broken horn and a bubbly young blonde girl, garbed rather the same as Rikani. He did, however, notice them when the Rikani clone bopped him on the head several times.
"OW!" he growled, jumping to his feet, just a little bit embarrassed about being caught off guard.
"Psyche down willya," she smiled, waving her hands at him.
"Well I would if random people didn't just come up to me and hit me over the head!"
"Don't tease Dai-chan Rikku," someone scolded from behind Daichi and a pair of arms wrapped around his neck.
"Grrrgh…you're…chocking me…" he managed to choke out. Rikani dropped him and he fell to the ground, gasping for breath.
"Sowry, trying to cover your eyes, but I could only reach your neck." Rikku shook her head.
"If you're finished with this foolishness, we need to lie Yuna down." The scary lady said, patting the brunette on her head.
"Okay then, just take her inside, I have beds set up and everything," Rikani waved in the direction of her shed. The blue lion, orange hair guy and scary belt lady carried Yuna to the shed and went inside, while Rikku stayed outside with Rikani and Daichi.
"I'll explain about Daichi later, we have to help the lady summoner now," Rikani raplied to Rikku's quizzical glance at Daichi. The trio trooped into the shed, and the ship's ramp rose as the ship rose up and flew off.

ShS – W0074H! I just got a 1GB USB drive so I can keep my fanfics on it so I can work on them at school instead of only on the weekends. But now I don't have an excuse for not updating quicker. And I managed to access from school, so YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY :3 Still, don't be expecting frequent updates 'cause now all my attention will be on finishing my FFIX fanfic. I may still update here, but…yeah. When the muse smites me.