"Hey Church, we have a problem." Tucker announces.
"I'm not your mother, so don't come tattling to me every time one of you does something the other doesn't like." Church complains.
"Nyu!" Nyu exclaims.
"Okay, what did you break now?" Church asks.
"No, its not her. Its Caboose." Tucker explains. "He keeps threatening us, and talking in a scary voice."
"Nyu! Nyu!" Nyu adds.
"No I didn't." Caboose says.
"Nyu?" Nyu asks.
"Oh, you're saying you DIDN'T threaten to cut off my head and give it to Church as a birthday present?" Tucker asks. "And you didn't claim that everyone in this canyon is going to kill and mutilate Kaede one day?"
"You know, I think you're taking my words a little out of context." Caboose explains.
"What? What context?" Tucker asks.
"Yes! Nyu!" Nyu agrees.
"Excuse me." A purple soldier that appeared behind Church interjects.
"Hey pal? One second okay? I'm in the middle of something here." Church responds. "I thought I established by now that out of all of you, I like Kaede the most."
"Yes!" Nyu exclaims with triumph.
"I said Kaede, not you. She's the only one that has a shed of SENSE in this fucking canyon. So competing for my attention isn't gonna do any of you any good." Church explains.
"Nyu..." Nyu says, sadly.
"Mean." Caboose comments.
"Excuse me." Purple interjects again.
"Okay. Yes. Hello. Who're you?" Church asks. As Church talks to the newcomer, Caboose turns back to Tucker and Nyu.
"Don't ever be alone... both of you." He says in his deep voice.
"Nyu..." Nyu weakly whimpers as she hides behind Tucker.
"He's doing that thing again." Tucker complains.
"My names Dufresne... uh, are you private Tucker?" Purple asks.
"No, I am not private Tucker. My name is Church." Church introduces before pointing to Tucker. "THIS is private Tucker."
"Yo!" Tucker greets.
"The unarmored girl is Kaede... or her split personality Nyu right now. And our friend in regulation blue? Thats Caboose. Or O'mally or whatever the hell he's calling himself."
"Pffff. Soon we're gonna have trouble with names when everyone's got multiple." Tucker mutters to Nyu. "It'd be really shitty if you got a third name... then shit'd be REAL complicated.
"Why did you introduce me last?" Caboose asks.
"Nyu Nyu!" Nyu barks at Caboose.
"I think she means because he hates you." Tucker translates... or at least he thinks he does. From there, Nyu drifted in and out of the conversation as the purple person, now called Doc, explained he was here to help Tex... even though she's been dead for 3 months now. Doc checks their vitals, Nyu never found out if her vitals were as good as everyone else's. Before Doc could leave, a loud bang went off and Docs medical thingy was knocked from his hand.
"Nyu scared!" Nyu exclaims before running and hiding into the base. Multiple more loud bangs were heard as Nyu coward inside the base. This went on for awhile before it stopped and was replaced by shouting. This went on for hours and eventually, Nyu fell asleep.
Kaede awakens on the floor to silence. No loud bangs or yelling or anything like that. Checking the time, she determines it is around noon.
"I must have woken up as Nyu." Kaede says to herself. "At least I get to enjoy this day too." She gets up and heads outside. Not a blue in sight, however, she can hear talking coming from above. Going onto the ramp, she arrives just in time to hear-
"Oh, stop being a baby just wiggle it." Church says. Tucker then kneels down so his face is at Church's crotch. "...so, you from around here baby?" With that, Kaede collapsed on the floor from laughter, the others taking notice of her.
"Tucker..." She manages out through her laughter. "I... I..." she barely says. "I never knew you were gay!"
"Kaede, no! This isn't what it looks like!" Church exclaims.
"Its...haha. Its okay Church. You don't have to hide the relationship between you two. It is perfectly okay for the two of you to be in a relationship. Heck, I support it." Kaede continues. "Did you want Caboose and I to leave the two of you alone?"
"No!" Both Church and Tucker exclaim.
"He's trying to help me find the robot's repair function." Church explains.
"What on Tucker broke?" Kaede asks.
"I mean, we're gonna use it to fix the tank!" Church yells to which Kaede giggles.
"Easy, Church. Just messing with ya." Kaede says.
"Wait, I thought he really was a gay robot?" Caboose says.
"You wanna make anymore of those kinds of jokes?" Tucker asks Church.
"No thanks. I think I hit my quota. Back to work." Church grumbles. The two then went back to messing with Church's "functions", so Kaede decided to see if the reds were up to anything. As Kaede makes her way to the blue base, she sees a purple soldier sitting in the reds jeep in the middle of the canyon. New recruit maybe? He then heads back towards the red base. It then runs full speed into Sarge, pining him to the wall.
"Sarge!" Kaede exclaims before rushing over there. The gun on the back of the jeep fires away from Sarge but slowly gets closer. Getting into range, Kaede uses one of her invisible arms to take hold of the gun, stopping it from moving any closer. She the yanks the gun right off the vehicle and the lifts the vehicle freeing Sarge.
"Oh, Kaede. Thanks for the help. Unlike SOME OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS TEAM!" Sarge exclaims upon clearing the warthog. Once he is clear Kaede releases the jeep and pulls the purple soldier out of it.
"Oof. Thanks. That drives seat's gonna need a through cleaning by the way." The purple soldier says to her.
"And just what the hell were you doing!?" Kaede yells at him before picking him up by the neck with one of her invisible arms.
"Ah! I didn't mean too! The jeep was doing it! I swear!" Purple panics as he is being choked out.
"Bullshit! If you're gonna lie, make it believable!" Kaede exclaims.
"One quick swipe to the neck, and he won't bother anyone again." She hears. 'Maybe I should.' She thinks. 'He deliberately tried to kill Sarge.'
"I swear! Its the truth!" He pleads.
"Quiet! Or I'll shut you up permanently!" Kaede yells.
"No! Please don't do that!" Purple begs. Kaede then readies another vector to go for his neck.
"Kaede, we appreciate the enthusiasm, but we kinda need our prisoners alive." Simmons says.
"Prisoner?" Kaede questions.
"Yeah, we took this guy from the blues." Grif explains. "They surrendered him to us." 'I was only Nyu for a few hours, how did so much happen in that time?' Kaede thinks.
"Does it matter? If he is kept alive, he may try something like this again. He clearly can't be restrained." That was true, Kaede thought.
"Men, I have an alternative solution." Sarge says. "We return him to the blues and let him wreak havoc on their side of the canyon.
"Excellent idea, sir!" Simmons says.
"Whatever." Grif says.
"Kaede, you can let him down now." Donut says. Kaede takes a moment to look between purple and Donut before finally releasing him.
"Ah, thanks Nyu." Purple thanks as the mental being in Kaede's mind curses.
"Quick, get him over there Grif and Simmons. While he's still delusional." Sarge says. 'Wait, he knows Nyu?' Kaede thinks. Hopefully, he doesn't spill the beans about her, because that is one conversation she is not looking forward to. As Grif and Simmons take him away, Donut and Sarge remain. "I always say you're the most useful member here. And I mean it! Today just proves that!" Sarge exclaims.
"That was so cool, Kaede!" Donut exclaims. "How did you do that?" Right, she never told him about her powers. She explained what she knew of them until Grif and Simmons came back. "Cool! Why can't anyone else see the arms?"
"I don't know. I haven't found out any specifics besides what they can do." Kaede explains.
"Hey, we're back." Simmons greets.
"Grif, Simmons, were you able to work out a suitable exchange?" Sarge asks.
"Uh, not exactly sir." Simmons explains. "You see, when we showed up, the blues were doing something really weird, and then-"
'They're still set up on finding Lopezes fix function?' Kaede thinks as Grif and Simmons relay the story of what happened.
"Anyway, they didn't want the prisoner back sir." Simmons concludes.
"Why, those cunning blue devils!" Sarge curses. "Does their treachery know no bounds!"
"It wasn't a total loss sir, I was able to steal his wallet." Grif explains.
'If it was Tuckers, you're shit outta luck if you're looking for money.' Kaede thinks. "Which one's did you steal?"
"The one in the... turquoise armour? I dunno, the bluish green one." Grif explains. 'Figures.' Kaede thinks. An explosion then knocks everyone from their train of thought.
"What in Sam hill is goin' on out there, Grif?" Sarge demands as Grif grabs a sniper rifle.
"Sir, I think we're under attack! A very sloppy, poorly coordinated attack." Grif explains.
"How many do you see?" Sarge asks.
"There's two running our way, and another one seems to be- retreating?" Grif explains. 'What are you guys doing?' Kaede couldn't help but ask herself.
"Oh, we'll give them a reason to retreat. Saddle up Simmons!" Sarge exclaims. "Kaede, watch. This is how us reds rope us some blue steer!." Sarge and Simmons then run towards the warthog. 'All this fighting between my two groups of friends is gonna kill me one day.' Kaede mentally groans as Donut badgers Grif.