With Tucker, things weren't going well either. He called command which resulted in a really strange answering machine picking up his call. He left a message to send help, yet its been days and help never arrived. To add onto that, he was struck on an unlucky streak and Nyu didn't revert back to Kaede to lend a hand.
Nyu recognized there were bad people outside and attempted to train herself with the pistol she had woken up with. That didn't go well, and she ended up wasting all her ammo trying to hit an empty soda can, not even grazing the thing.
Their rations were low, so Tucker occasionally had to open the gate and cause some chaos outside to steal some from outside. If help didn't arrive soon, they would surly die. Unless Kaede woke up and went ham on those guys, but that was unlikely as she was always hesitant in using her invisible arms for a destructive purpose.
A rumbling was heard "Nyu?" Said, hands on her stomach. Looks like it was that time of day again.
"Alright, stay here Nyu, I'll get us some grub." Tucker says before whipping out his sword. He then heads outside while Nyu watches and waits.
During this time, there are shouts and screams and large booms. Nyu huddles up when these appear but she does not cry out. She may be scared but she must hold on, for Tuckers sake if not her own. Eventually, she hears Tucker again.
"Guys, hold them off, I'll get the door." She hears him exclaim. Did he find Donut? She really wanted to see him again. She hears the temple door close and sees Caboose, Grif, and Sarge walk in with Tucker.
"Nyu!" Nyu jumps up and glops Caboose in a hug.
"Awe. I missed you too mew." Caboose greets as he returns the hug.
"Aw hey, look, its these guys." Grif unenthusiastically says.
"You brought these guys? Are we killing each other today? Or pretending to work together?" Tucker questions. Nyu moves to hug Grif who just stands and takes it.
"No! No bleugh!" Nyu exclaims. She meant she didn't want the two to kill each other.
"Aw, don't worry Nyu. You weren't you when we promised this, but we won't kill them. We'll settle for beating them half to death." Sarge explains.
"Gee, how considerate." Tucker deadpans.
"So yeah, the pretending version." Caboose confirms.
"Cool. Anyway, how'd you find us?" Tucker asks.
"We got the radio call you sent." Sarge answers. Nyu remembered him doing that during their time trapped here. She thought he was talking to her during that time, it took awhile to clear it up.
"The distress signal? And they sent you assholes? That was to help me! I wanted less distress, not more distress." Tucker exclaims.
"We actually kind of ignored that call at first." Grif adds.
"That makes sense." Tucker says.
"And then Donut showed up and told us you were in trouble." Grif finishes.
"Hohoho, I get it. So me making an emergency call, not a big deal. Donut telling you some dumb homo story, red alert." Tucker complains.
"Pretty much." Sarge confirms. "Anyways, even though she's Nyu right now, you've got Kaede! Whats the distress?"
Nyu had started to realize that she was also someone else in a way. They spoke as if sometimes, when she was asleep, she was someone called Kaede who could speak normally. Nyu wondered how she could talk with Kaede. Perhaps she could help her out with pleasing Tucker and now the rest of her family. She also imagined this Kaede would be a nice friend to have.
"First off, I don't know if her arms can block laser beams and I'm pretty sure I don't want to find out." Tucker starts. "Second, she's been Nyu for awhile. Almost the entire time we've been holed up here. And lastly, Kaede doesn't like mowing people down. Shes admitted to me that she has nightmares about killing people. Don't tell her I told you that though."
"I dream of mowing people down. Those are the best dreams I have!" Sarge admits.
"Well, she's not crazy like you Sarge." Tucker says.
"Hmph. Whats going on here anyway?" Sarge changes the subject. Tucker then went on to explain that the temple housed some kind of alien weapon that was dangerous if it fell into the right hands. He then explained how the evil people showed up and attacked and trapped them in here.
"Look guys, thanks for the fucked up rescue mission and all that, but where's Church?" Tucker asks.
"Oh, um he's dead." Caboose simply states.
"Nyu?" Nyu worriedly asks. Even though Church was mean a lot of the time, he was still nice to her on occasion. She liked him.
"Yeah, I know that, Church has been dead for years, it never stopped him before." Tucker retorts.
"Oh yeah, we also found out that he's, not a ghost, and that he's an A.I. computer program, like Shelia." Caboose states.
"A. A?" Nyu asks.
"Huh?" Tucker questions.
"Artificial. It means artificial. Whatever that means." Caboose replies.
"Oh." Tucker sighs. "Look enough fooling around. We either need to chase these guys off or destroy this Facility. Or pick up some chicks. Old habits die hard."
"But why destroy it?" Sarge questions.
"Orders. We can't let it fall into anyone else's hands. Plus, breaking stuff is fucking awesome." Tucker replies.
"Nyu." Nyu says with determination and runs off. She would find and destroy this weapon before it hurt anyone. As she ran off, she head a large banging. She would have to work quickly. She looked furiously until she found what looked like a metal ball buried in the sand. This must be the weapon!
She started kicking the ball in an effort to destroy it.
"Nyu. Nyu. Nyu. Nyu." She frustratedly says as she kicks it. After awhile, she gets tired and stops to catch her breath. When she's done she grabs the object out of the sand. "Nyu!" She throws it at the wall. Still no damage.
"Wow. It is noisy in here." She hears. She turns to see Caboose coming into the little room, maybe he could help her.
"Help Nyu! Help Nyu!" She asks.
"Yes! We can use this to help Epsilon! Thank you Nyu!" Caboose exclaims.
"Nyu?" Nyu questions. Didn't Tucker say the ball was bad? Now Caboose said it could help Church. "Nyu." She hands him the ball. If the ball could help her friends, then maybe it wasn't so bad. Caboose accepts the ball and pulls out some strange device and connects it to the ball. Certain sections of the ball begin to pulse blue.
"Yes. I think it is working." Caboose says.
"Make?" Nyu asks.
"Yes. We are making Epsilon a new body." Caboose answers. "Well, we didn't make this but we found it so close enough."
"Nyu?" Nyu asks, pointing to the device Caboose had.
"Oh how silly of me, I forgot to introduce him. Nyu this is Epsilon. He likes to hear story's." Caboose introduces.
"Nyu." Nyu gleefully waves to the device.
"Wha... whats going on?" The ball responds.
"Epsilon?" Caboose asks.
"Oh, whoa! Am I speaking?! And I can see!" Epsilon exclaims. Wait, his voice is familiar.
"No. Its Church! You were Epsilon all along!" Caboose exclaims. Nyu took a sideways glance. The ball kind of sounded like Church but a little... different.
"Huh? I'm Church?" Church questions.
"Yes. You are Church." Caboose answers.
"Church from your stories? The awesome guy? Fuck yeah, I'm Church!" Church exclaims.
"Would you be quiet? See you're gonna get me in trouble." Caboose explains.
"Trouble? Fuck that." Church responds.
"Nyu Nyu." Nyu says. That was definitely Church. Always mean for no reason.
"What? What does that mean?" Church asks.
Now, Nyu usually grew a bit irritated when someone couldn't understand her, but her curiosity overcame her irritation as the Church ball began to float. Nyu got up close and began poking at him as if that would provide the answer.
"Hey! Stop! What are you doing!" Church exclaims.
"Nyu?" Nyu responds as she continues her poking.
"Just stop moving around. Her vision is based on movement." Caboose advises.
"I'm not moving! You're the one thats moving!" Church yells back.
"Well, I'm sorry Church." Church apologizes.
"Church!?" They hear they voices exclaims simultaneously. They turn to see Sarge, Grif, and Tucker have found them.
"Nyu!" Nyu joyously greets, misreading the atmosphere.
"I can explain." Caboose guiltily says.
"Who the fuck are these guys?" Church asks.