"Make our country proud, Raika…"

Chapter 3 – For My Home…

The speakers roar loudly as a tall 17 year old boy with blue hair and army clothes walk to the terminal where he is to board the next flight to Electopia. People stare at him as he walks through the walkways of the airport. They whisper as he walks pass, but Raika pays no attention to them. As Raika walks by this family, a little 5 year old boy screams "I want to be just like him, Mommy!"

Raika feels the feeling of satisfaction until the mother speaks to her child. "No dear, you don't want to be like him. Children without mommies and daddies only become part of the army. You can be better then that."

Raika, with rage in his heart, walks faster and farther away from the family. He has been trained to hold his rage and temper. In his mind, he says, "I don't need a family. That is why I am who I am. I have become more powerful and smarter because I am who I am. I can't believe I am fighting for these kinds of people…"

He stops before a terminal and compares numbers from a sheet of paper from his pocket to the golden numbers at the far wall. Because they match, he walks through and sits down at a chair with his carry-on book bag. Out of nervousness, the people around him move away from him, as if he were a diseased man. They whisper to each other and make sure they are as proper and as good as they can be; they fear him. Many people whisper things like, "Oh my gosh, that is an army boy!" or "You kids be good or the army boy will eat you or take you away from me" and even "Gosh, that guy is cute. Too bad he is in the army. He'll probably be dead tomorrow." Acting as if he couldn't hear them, they continue to speak more until one girl, about 7 years old, walks up to him and ask, "Why is mommy 'fraid of you, mister?" She had the most innocent face; she even smiles at Raika when she asks.

The mother looks in dread as Raika bends down from his seat and replies to the girl. "I don't know. They seem to not like me. I think it is because of where I work. I didn't have a choice to. If I did, then I wouldn't be here." He chuckles and smiles to the girl. "Now go back to your mom. She looks scared that I might hurt you."

The little girl runs back to her mom then stops. She turns around and states, "I tink you are a nice mister, mister." She smiles then runs back to her mother. Her mother yells at her and holds her as tightly as she can. The little girl says to her mom, "I don know why you are 'fraid of him. I tink he is really nice." She giggles after that comment.

Raika watches the whole scene, then turns to see the other people. They all stare at him then quickly turn away. In Raika's mind, he says to himself, "I know, now, why I need to fight. I fight for the kind people of my country. I fight to make people know I am not evil. I fight for my home…"

"People of flight 386, please take your belongings. It is now time to board your flight to Electopia," announces the airline employee. Everyone lines up before the ticket counter and they start boarding the plane.

The little girl runs up to Raika and holds his hand. With a surprise look on his face, he turns down to see the little girl smiling up to him. He returns the smile and looks back at the mother of the girl. The mother nods back at him.

"My mommy said you were a nice person and she thunked wrong about you. She said it was alwight for me to walk to the plane with you." She giggles and she skippes down the departure gate while holding Raika's hand. Raika just smiles as he watches her skip around him. They walk into the plane and she run right to her seat and sits down. "Mommy and me sit here! Seat 12 a! I have to sit here and wait for mommy."

Raika smiles at the girl and responds by saying, "Ok. I have to sit here at seat 20. That is all the way in the back so I have to move so that people have room to walk on to the plane. I liked talking to you. I hope you have fun on your trip." They both nod at each other and they separate from each other.

As he walks to his seat, he hears the little girl yell to the back. "You are my big broter now!" The mother pulled the girl down and yells at her for yelling on the plane. Raika continues back and continues smiling.

He sits at his seat and sees a mysterious figure next to him; this figure is dark and is covered in a blanket. Raika stares at the figure and the figure's eyes stare right back. A feminine voice speaks "You are the person I am looking for, right; the person to help us, right?" Raika looks in shock and prepares himself to attack this person. "I am guessing that is a yes. Anyway, sit down. I have information for you about our missions. Notice that a 2 chair radius around us is empty right? This is very important for us."

Raika nods and speaks. "How do I know I can trust you? You seem suspicious. I don't like talking to strangers unless my commanders command me to."

Without hesitation, the female lifts up her blanket and shows him a butterfly badge on her white blouse collar. She picks it from her collar and says, "Here look at the back of this. I am an international COO member. I travel everywhere; that is why I am a butterfly agent."

Raika examines the pin then flips it to the back. The back says, "A: Butterfly-COO." He returns the pin and Butterfly places back onto her collar.

"It gives this bland shirt some color doesn't it?" inquires Butterfly.

"I would preferred it if you would just give me the information I need for my mission," announces Raika.

"Ah, yes. They warned me that you would be boring and no fun at all," retorts Butterfly. She continues on with her blabbering about how he needs to loosen up. Raika, although he really wants to get the information from her, stays silent because he knows there will be a long trip ahead.

Suddenly, Butterfly stops and jerks her head up, thus making her brown curly hair bounce up and down a few times. Raika looks at her in a confused manner and then looks around the plane to see anything suspicious. He finds nothing and turns his face back towards Butterfly. All he can hear her whisper now is "Yes, sir" and "Sorry, sir." He suspects that she must be in communication with someone, so he keeps his eyes out for her as she seemingly continues to say "yes, sir." Suddenly, she shoves something black and small into his ear. "'Boss' wants to talk to you. Shhhhh. He'll explain everything," she whispers. Raika strokes his ear a bit to find that it was a mini microphone and ear phone.

"You were in contact with someone this whole time!" Raika loudly whispers to her. Butterfly lifts up her long curly hair and shakes it gently noting that no one bothers to check her hair to see if she is in contact with any one. The earphone looks like a normal earphone piece to tuck into her ear and a little section of a portable microphone that sticks out only one centimeter from the ear piece, the microphone also acts as a receiver and a transmitter. On both ears, she also has hoop earrings just in case anyone was to detect the metal inside the microphone and earphone.

Raika softly speaks to the microphone, which partly hangs out from the earphone. "Sir," he responds to see if it will respond back. The microphone responds with the voice of a man.

"I see that you have met Butterfly. I also see that she didn't tell you anything about the mission," responded the man.

"Yes, sir," answers Raika.

The man sighs a bit but then continues to speak and tell Raika all about the mission. Suddenly the sound of something banging is being heard in the earphone and Raika could hear Netto yelling in the background.

"No one told me about this! Where did Meijin-san go to! I'm going to kill him for this!"

"Netto-kun?" addresses Raika to Netto. "Is that you? Why are you being so arrogant and disrespectful to the commanding officer? Don't you have a duty to your people?"

Netto, back in the "Boss"'s room yells out to a dark box that looks like an old radio. "Raika! Hey! I don't have a duty! Meijin-san didn't tell me anything about this! He just told me I had a mission! I didn't say that I had to help save the world again! You know" At that moment, everyone heard a very loud stomach growl, this included Raika. "Oooohh, I'm soo hungry." Then he flops back down and everyone heard a loud thud.

Raika couldn't help but slap his hand to his forehead and wipe it down his face. After doing so, he heard an alarm sound off in the background. The leader announces to Netto that this will be his first mission and that food will just have to wait. "Netto, head off with Ari and Enzan to the Radio Tower in Elec Town. Trouble is going to start there. Our scouts have spotted some people from Dark Reflection. I have to continue to explain some things to Raika. Haxor, man your station." Two sets of foot steps left the room. "Raika, this is the express flight you are on; you will be arriving here shortly. We will need your help with our missions in protecting the city. We have information that they are after something in Den City. Many clues lead to a massive weapon that will lead to a great amount of chaos everywhere. We believe that they are in the midst of creating a troop of robots by using top secret information. We still need more information and our crews of hackers have been working day and night to try to find out what they may be going after before they actually get to it. We will need your smarts and strength to help us with our mission to protect all that live on this planet. Will you accept this mission?"

Raika, without hesitation, replies "Yes, sir." He takes out his pet and looks at Searchman. "Are you ready?" he asks. Searchman nods in reply. Butterfly looks at Raika and smiles.

"Alright then, agent. I will inform you about your mission once you arrive. Your ETA is about 2 hours 15 minutes. You will also receive a small piece of paper. Do not open it until you leave the plane. Boss, out."

"Welcome to the team, agent," she says. "You get promoted to agent rank even without the training, you lucky goose. Well since this will be a long trip, I need to talk to someone. Lessee here! You can tell me about Searchman and I can tell you about Tetrula! Oh wait! Gimme back that!" She yanks out the earphones and wipes them off. Then she sticks it back in her ear and continues to talk. At that same moment, she slaps a sheet of paper in his hand. "Alright! Well, Tetrula…" She ceases to end with her talking until they reach Den City Airport, the place where they separate and move on to their separate missions.

"Raika, sir. Do you feel up to doing this mission?" Searchman asks.

"Of course. Now we really have the chance to make our nation proud and to prove that we are much better then Netto and I believe the 'Boss' said Enzan was there. We will show them that we are much better then those two are," says Raika in a determined tone. With that said, he walks out and he opens up the sheet of paper that Butterfly gave to him. Besides all the doodling, the note says:

"Hey Raika! I was hoping to meet you sooner then this. I got way too bored and drew all over this paper. Hehehe! Well, go to Beach Street and then look for an abandoned building. There will be a person with black spiky hair like this insert a crude drawing of a black and spiky haired guy with sunglasses that will be waiting to take you to our based. I hope you have fun! smoochies!

Butterfly"

Raika chuckled at the drawings and followed the directions and headed off to base.

NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW:

The next chapter will start to have some action in it. While Raika is going to headquarters, Netto, Ari, and Enzan head off to the Radio Tower. They meet a mysterious and shadowy man in a trench coat and a hat. Who wears a trench coat and a hat now-a-days and in Summer? There is something wrong with this picture. Wait for the upcoming chapter, Chapter 4: Battle #1- The Fight to Living Rights