Lil Empress of the Heartless: lmao! i know right? i bet shion makes akick $$ cake! lmao.

Akira Bane: lol, yesh, he's very mean. won't let em escape that easilly! where would the story go? lol. and i'm sorry, but jin doesn't fight. it's just albedo vs gaignan... > don't kill me!

Chapter Six:

Finding the Strength to go on

Gaignan gave a moan of pain as he stood up. Looking around him, he could see nothing but pain and destruction. The entire beach was practically demolished. There was a gaping crater where Albedo had created that explosion and most of the sand was gone. Everyone was hurt but most of the others began waking. Jr. was surrounded in a pool of his own blood and the blood just kept coming. Jin walked over to Gaignan, with a limp, while Ziggy tended to Momo. chaos stood up, shaking his head from the fall and called out "It's no good! Kos-Mos is offline! She won't wake..."

"Great..." Gaignan sighed. "And the only one who knows how to properly fix her is..." he suddenly looked around at everyone again. "Shion! No... she's not here!"

"Sister? She's gone?" Jin began searching as well.

"Emmy..." Jr. struggled to talk. "She's.. not here either..."

"Grrrr..." Gaignan's aura suddenly appeared, fueled by his anger. "Damn you Albedo!" he shouted out.

"Calm down... we'll find her." Jin stopped his search and walked over to Gaignan.

"You guys go for Albedo... I'll find them."

"Wait!" Jr. cryed out. "You have to come for Albedo... with me."

"What? No! Shion and Emmy are my first priority!"

"I can understand that... but if an attack group goes for Albedo, and you and I aren't there, he'll get suspicious. He'll try to probe for us... see where we are. We have to keep his attention, so another group can get to Shion and Emmy."

Gaignan growled, but calmed down, his aura disappearing. "Ok. We'll split up then. First of all, who is able to go?" he looked around. "Seems like... chaos, Jin, Ziggy, and I."

"No, I'm going too." Jr. argued.

"What? In your condition? You have to stay here."

"No, I'm going with you. Don't worry, I won't fight. I'll be there for... support."

Gaignan looked at Jr. and could see the emotion in his face. He was reluctant to reply, but he allowed it. "Ok... you can come with."

"But..." Ziggy interrupted. "Where are we going to start? We don't even know where they are!"

"You forget..." chaos was already ahead of them. "They're all U.R.T.V.s. They can sense each other."

"But..." Jr. winced as he finally got the arrow out of his chest. "Won't probing Albedo's mind alert him to our presence?"

"I wasn't thinking about Albedo... I was thinking about Emmy." chaos turned to Gaignan. "You can mentally speak with her... right?"

"Well... we've only done it a few times, but we should be able to do it." Gaignan closed his eyes and let out his mind. It searched everywhere... for any traces of Emmy... and it stopped... at an old abandoned asteroid mining facility.

"Emmy? Are you there?"

Emmy's "voice" were filled with joy. "Dad? You found us!"

"Yes." he let out a sigh of relief. "I've found you. But I don't know your exact location... do you know where you are?"

"Um... no. Let me ask Mom." There was a moment of silence. "She says we're somewhere near... Miltia. Second Miltia actually. Like... 30 or 40 parsecs away from Second Miltia."

"Ok. Well... this is going to be harder than I thought... if you don't really know where you are..."

"Wait! Mom said she almost had a distress signal going out to the Elsa! If we could get out of these prison cells, we could send the signal out!"

"Ok. What do you need to get out?"

"The locks are covered in an anti electric cover, so Mom can't attack them anymore... we need a way to pierce it."

"I see... ok. Emmy? I'm going to send you some of my energy. I want you to concentrate the energy in you hand, and imagine a dagger there. Ok?"

After more silence, Emmy finally had good news. "It worked Dad! I'm out!"

"Great! Ok, now get Mom out, and we'll be headed on your way ok? Just... try to stay safe, ok? We'll get you in no time!" With everything he needed, Gaignan cut off the mental link.

"Ok." he opened his eyes, and looked at everyone. "They're on an asteroid mining facility about 30 to 40 parsecs away from 2nd Miltia. Shion's working on a distress signal to be sent to the Elsa. We have to get to 2nd Miltia as quick as possible. Now, chaos, Jin, and Ziggy, you search the place for Shion and Emmy when we get there. I'll take care of Albedo." Jr. began clearing his throat. "Sorry, we'll take care of Albedo. Ok?" everyone nodded. "Let's go!"

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A/N: yay! so they're going for em! and, ya see, jin won't be fighting... sorry! > well, yea. review plz! next chappie, daggers, daggers, everywhere!