The sun was just setting as Red team landed back on Kamakura's shores. It was for the best as the Reds, Kouta, and Doc hastily exited the boat carrying an unconscious Kaede back to Maple Inn with few onlookers. Kouta was still glad for the helmet that obscured his face from the few that did spy them. When the group finally reached Maple Inn, Kouta tore off his helmet and threw it on the ground in the yard before bursting through the door with the others. There stood Yuka, who was fuming with anger.
"Kouta, where were you?! You disappeared the whole day and no one knew where you went!" Yuka angrily exclaims.
"Uh, Kaede needed my help." Kouta explains in as few words as possible.
"Oh, ¿quién demonios es este?" Lopez mutters.
"And who are these two?!" Yuka exclaims.
"That's Lopez! Yet another member of the red team!" Sarge introduces.
"...Hola." He greets.
"Hello." Yuka greets.
"Yeah, he's kinda hard to understand sometimes." Simmons says.
"Quiere decir todo el tiempo." Lopez corrects. "Es jodidamente molesto."
"Does he speak another language other than Spanish?" Yuka asks.
"No." Simmons replies.
"And I'm Frank Defruse, But you can just call me Doc." The purple soldier introduces.
"Hello, Doc." Yuka greets. "Since you prefer to be called Doc, are you really a doctor?"
"No, I'm a medic." Doc corrects.
"Okay, But aren't they essentially the same thing?" Yuka asks.
"Here we go again." Grif mutters.
"Quick. While the unimportant characters are distracted, we get Kaede some actual medical attention." Sarge says.
"Don't we need Doc for that?" Kouta asks.
"No." The four red team members say. With that, the group stealthily make their way into Kaede's room. From there she is laid down.
"Before she wakes up, there's probably something you wanna know." Grif starts.
"What is it?" Kouta asks.
"Nyu?" Nyu also asks.
"That..." Grif sighs. Nyu looks to Kouta and is absolutely star struck. It felt like when she was looking at Caboose, only it was much stronger. Just who was he and why did she feel this way towards him?
"What?" Kouta asks.
"Kouta, meet Nyu. Kaede's alternate personality. Nyu, Kouta." Grif says.
"Alternate personality?" Kouta says as he looks at Nyu.
"Nyu?" Nyu says. Y-yes." She responds to him.
"Ye- Yeah I'm Kouta, Uh, nice to meet you, Nyu." Kouta awkwardly greets. The girl smiles in response.
"Nyu!" She hugs him as tight as she can, which is uncomfortable for Kouta since she is still wearing the ODST armour.
"Me voy." Lopez gets board and leaves to wander around.
"Why does... she only... say... her name?" Kouta breathes out through the hug.
"She kinda has a limited speech capacity for a reason we've yet to identify." Simmons explains.
"Also cause we never bothered to find out." Grif adds.
"She's comparable to that of a child." Simmons finishes.
"She was really nervous, particularly of having you find out about that part of her." Sarge says.
"I guess I can understand." Kouta says. Church then appears in the room. "Woah!"
"Good, you're back. Wash and Carolina wanna discuss what happened at the facility." He says.
"You guys go. I'll look after Nyu." Kouta says. With that, the Red team leaves the room.
The four soldiers enter the dining room to see Washington and Carolina already seated and waiting for them.
"I'm glad to see you've all made it out okay." Wash says. "Wait-"
"¿Quién diablos son estos dos?" Lopez asks.
"Is that the guy I shot awhile ago?" Wash asked.
"Huh?" Both Carolina and Church asked.
"Actually, this Red teams trusted robot!" Sarge exclaims.
"Is he speaking Spanish? Do any of you speak Spanish?" Carolina asks.
"He speaks Spanish so our enemy's can never interpret what he says!" Sarge answers.
"And no." Grif adds.
"Anyway, back on topic, did you guys encounter anything weird when breaking into the facility?" Church asks.
"You mean besides the fact that they stripped and strapped up an 18 year old girl while giving her 21st century military grade guards?" Grif asks. "Because no. Everything was normal."
"How did you guys know we were at the facility?" Simmons asks.
"We went there ourselves and rescued Caboose." Washington explained.
"We just so happened to hear about you. Especially with all the racket you guys were making." Carolina adds.
"And while we were there, we managed to uncover some basic information regarding that facility." Church says.
"What did you find?" Simmons asks.
"For starters, they have 34 high security cells set up there that are currently holding 33 prisoners as well as two... I wanna say maximum security cells but that would be underselling them, over kill level security cells." Church explains.
"Why have all that security. Seems like a waste of time." Grif responds.
"And why get Kaede involved?" Simmons asks.
"Over kill security seemed like a good call with what Kaede can do." Sarge says. "How many times have we rescued her before today?"
"None. Because she's to busy save us from our own incompetence." Grif says.
"Glad to see you're finally speaking for yourself." Sarge says to the orange soldier.
"Anyway, that leads me to my next piece." Church interrupts before another argument can break out. "I was able to get some very basic information on what they're holding in those cells. You guys are really gonna hear this."
"Is this a good we really wanna hear this or a bad we really wanna hear of this?" Simmons asks.
"Make of it what you will." Church simply says. "They call them Diclonius and describes them as a genetically altered human from birth."
"What, like a mutant from X-men?" Simmons asks.
"Kind of, only they all have the same super powers." Church explains. "The ability to use telekinetic hands known as Vectors as well as the ability to sense other members of their species."
"That first part sounds like what Kaede can do!" Sarge exclaims.
"Other species? You mean to say Kaede isn't human." Simmons asks.
"She both is and isn't. She's biologically the same as a human with the exceptions being the pink hair and horns on her head which are universal for her species as well as her brain." Church explains.
"Her brain?" Grif questions.
"What I recovered didn't have any more information on that part." Church says.
"So, you also mean to say that there are a bunch of other women that have the same unique features as Kaede along with her powers?" Sarge questions.
"Yes. That's what the holding cells were for." Church says.
"So what? The government is doing illegal experimentation on them? Like in the movies?" Simmons questions.
"Maybe. What I recovered wasn't clear on that." Church says. "Besides what I just told you, it warned not to come in contact with a Diclonius vectors."
"Why not? Kaede's touches us with those hands before and nothing's gone wrong with us." Grif says.
"I have to say, I'm skeptical about that too." Carolina says. "Bio-scan indicates everyone here is completely healthy." She then looks to Grif. "Well... most of us. Perhaps they were just warning of its capability's as a weapon."
"That would make the most sense." Simmons says. "Anyway, What should we do about this?"
"We lay low for now. We see their first move and then act accordingly." Wash says. "We'll also have to tell Kaede all of this."
"So, um, Nyu right?" Kouta asks.
"Yes." Nyu replies with a bright smile.
"Um, want me to help you out of that armour?" He asks the girl. Nyu only then takes notice of the fact that she was wearing armour. She kind of likes it, but it wasn't what she wanted on right now. That's why she couldn't feel Kouta to well, she realized.
"Yes." Nyu nods. With that, Kouta begins the tedious process of removing the armour, which thankfully wasn't as heavy as any of the other reds and blues armour. Nyu meanwhile just stared at him with this happy smile. It was nice, but also unnerving to some degree.
Nyu, meanwhile was debating with herself how she should go about talking with him. She wanted to ask him a bunch of different questions about himself, but that train of thought was stopped quickly upon remembering her speech problem. Dang, why did she have to be like that, she thought to herself. The rest of her family could talk perfectly normal, why did she struggle so? With a new found determination, she decided she would throw herself completely into teaching herself how to speak normally.
"There. It should be all off now." Kouta says. Nyu looks down to see she was left in only the skin suit.
"Nyu!" She exclaims as gratitude.
Kouta smiles at the gesture. "I'm guessing you don't want to be in that skin suit. Kaede put some clothes in here. Why don't you change?" Kouta, hopped this alternate personality knew how to change herself. He didn't want to create an embarrassing situation. Or worse, have someone walk in on it.
"Yes." Nyu exclaims. Before Kouta can breath his sigh of relief, Nyu takes her skin suit off faster than Kouta can react, leaving her completely exposed. Kouta quietly yells before turning completely around, completely flustered.
"I- I'm going to give you some privacy." He stutters before attempting to walk out. Before he can open the door, he feels Nyu grab his hand.
"N-Nyu?" Nyu asked. Wondering why he was leaving.
Figuring she just didn't want to be left alone, he compromised.
"Fine. I'll stay." Kouta relents. "But please be quick with putting your clothes on."
"Nyu!" Nyu happily exclaims. Throwing a selection of Kaede's clothes on. Kouta sighed in relief as he kept his back turned to Nyu and focused on if anyone would come through the door.
"Can this get any more complicated?" He quietly sighs.
AN: So, I've been gone longer than usual, so I'm just gonna make my explanation here short; I was caught up in some house renovations and when I wasn't doing that I was being loaded with work and only had bite sized chunks of time to write. They're still ongoing so it may be a while before things turn back to a semblance of normal.