"Hey guys"

"Hello again Linsaranto, how has your family been by the way?"

"Good, part of why my family thought I would be better as an intergalactic police informant/helper is because they too decided to help the intergalactic police about an Earth year after my return home"

"Oh, now then what do you know and how can that help?"

And so Linsaranto gave all the information he had, which wasn't as much as hoped but it was better than actually expected since they hadn't really gotten many leads since going into space

"Well then I guess all that's left to do is follow these leads and go from there"

"Indeed, let's just hope we find her killers and abductors sooner than we found you Jiban, though finding you was a good surprise at least"

"Yes, I just wish..."

"So do we but we had a funeral and you were there"

"Yes, we had a body this time around unlike with you Jiban"

"I know, it was an open casket funeral to my surprise, but in any case now you know what we're after Linsaranto"

"Yes, now then let's get to work with what leads I have brought"

And so the group starts to figure out where the people who abducted Zoe's remains were last seen and six months after Jiban went into space Yoko joined him because the EDC had exhausted every lead on Earth

*I think everyone was surprised including me Naoto when we ran out of leads so fast*

*How did that happen anyways Yoko?*

*Not sure really, it just did*

"Hey you two, English please"

"Sorry Jazz"

"Still, it is a surprise seeing you so soon Yoko, we thought it would take longer for the leads to die out on Earth if they ever did, to be honest while we're searching space we thought that they would remain on Earth so as to not establish a pattern"

"Same here but I guess not"

And so the group continues to follow what leads they get with Linsaranto's help and Yoko also doing work and six months after Yoko joins the case and a year after going into space the group finally arrests those who desecrated the grave and stole Zoe's remains, however they would receive a rather nasty shock

"Where's Zoe's body?"

"We don't have it anymore, we were attacked and her body taken from us"

"And why did you desecrate her grave and take her body in the first place?"

(Sighs) "I guess you have a right to know, we had two reasons, one of the reasons was because of the fact that we wanted to see if a drug that we need an antidote to was used seeing as how you guys aren't aware of the drug and thus wouldn't know to test for it or make an antidote. The second reason was not necessarily as a means to hurt you EDC officers but we weren't exactly thinking straight when we decided to see if she could be revived or if not then buried on the planet where she got her powers"

"I see...you could have asked us about the drug that has an antidote and taught us how to detect it for that issue, as for burying her on the planet she received her powers from, they already told us that she should be buried on Earth as it was her home planet, because she can't be revived or we would have succeeded when we tried before burying her"

"We're sorry, we should have thought things through better"

"Yes, you should have, we would have given permission for her body to be exhumed to test for the drug you suspected she had been given if we had known about it so that you could create an antidote that we all could use"

And so the search for Zoe's body continued with Jiban proving regularly that he'd made her powers his own though at the same time it was still obvious that he wasn't the original holders of the powers to those who had truly known Zoe and Jiban before Zoe's death. Eventually another year passed and finally they retrieved Zoe's body

"Finally, we can bring her home"

"Yes, it is time to bring her home"

And so Naoto puts his hand over Zoe's chest and suddenly freezes

"Uh...guys"

"What is it Tamura?"

"Zoe's alive, and probably has been this entire time"

"What?!"

The group quickly hooks Zoe up to equipment given to them by the ones who had taken her body in the first place and discovered that Naoto was correct in that Zoe was indeed alive, which was a shock to everyone including her original abductors

"I swear we didn't know, the equipment didn't catch this when we checked for ourselves"

"We know, something must have changed between when you scanned her last time and this time"

"Maybe it took both our technologies to discover that she was actually alive, that and whatever it was that let officer Tamura know"

"Possibly"

"Still...how are we going to safely bring her about?, if she's been in a stasis like state for all this time..."

"Oh...yeah that's a problem alright"

"How so?"

"Easy Linsaranto, she's going to be extremely weak when we finally wake her up and if we don't bring her out of the stasis properly we'll lose her for real this time, and she's also going to be severely malnourished as well"

"Maybe you can hook her up to something that will help her with this malnourishment thing and then figure out a way to safely bring her out of stasis"

"Okay that will work because of the fact that just giving her an IV won't really affect the stasis, it's everything else that we have to do that will affect her stasis"

"Good point, this is going to take time and I don't think she'll be able to be a police officer ever again you two"

*Why not Jazz?*

*Simple Yoko, she'll never regain her strength to be a police officer, even using her powers will drain her drastically and knock her out for days at a time*

*I could tell as soon as I touched her that while she was alive there was something about her that was different, I can help supplement her strength but it wouldn't last for very long and probably not something Zoe would want anyways*

*Hopefully she takes it well then but still...at least she's alive*

"Only if we properly revive her from stasis"

And with that the group gets started on bringing Zoe out of stasis, which takes two Earth months but finally she was awake

*Jazz?*

*Hey Zoe*

*Why are we on an EDC ship?*

*I'll explain that later, for now though you still need rest and the IV you have in you, doctors orders*

*Okay*

Zoe starts to go back to sleep only to sit up suddenly

*Jiban!...I remember everything Jazz, did...did Jiban get my necklace in time?*

*Yes and he's made them his own in several ways*

*Good, that doesn't explain why...Jazz did I die?*

*Yes, and your body was stolen through a slight misunderstanding, but that ultimately turned out to be a good thing because we would have never found out about you being alive if not for that*

*Hm...full story later then, night*

It would take Zoe another two weeks before she was able to actually stay awake the entire time she needed to but once that was accomplished she was told the full story about how her stasis was discovered and reversed. She was also told about the fact that she would never be able to be a police officer again because she was simply too weak to handle the job anymore, and how her powers would make her exhausted much earlier than before due to how she was put into stasis in the first place and also how long she'd been in stasis

"I see...Naoto I bet I know what you would do if I would let you, but I won't let you"

"I figured you wouldn't let me supplement your powers with mine"

"You figured right...however I can give you what's left of my powers, thus the powers you gained from my necklace will truly be yours, but to do so we must go to the planet where I gained my powers in the first place"

"You know that's something that's always confused me, even when I became an EDC liaison I was never told how you gained those powers, it seemed like a taboo subject"

"It's not so much a taboo as much as the fact that my family is so used to my abilities and how I came by them that it's not really asked about and thus not really explained. You see I was actually born with these powers though we didn't know about it until I was five"

"Wait...how can you have been born with those powers?"

"My mom was unknowingly pregnant with me at the time when she visited the planet and drank the water, when my birth parents died when I was a month old, that's how I got adopted by the Cybertronians"

"But the water was what gave you your powers"

"Yes, it was, at least from what my family and the people of the planet I gained my powers from can figure out anyways"

"Still...are you sure you want to give up what abilities you have left? I mean if you're attacked because of the fact that you're well known to EDC enemies..."

"I know, however there's something you guys have to consider, my powers put me in this stasis when it detected the poison, but...because of that I can tell that these powers will kill me if I don't transfer them to someone else"

"Wait are you saying..."

"Yes, if I don't give up my powers to either those who naturally have them because they are from the planet or give them to Naoto then I will die"

"How long Zoe?"

"One Earth year, we have that long to get me to the planet and transfer the powers to either Naoto or someone on that planet"

"Okay, we need a little more clarity one Earth year from today or...from when you were brought out of stasis"

"From when I was brought out of stasis"

"Which means we have about eleven and a half months before you die to get back to that planet and transfer your powers, which gives Naoto time to decide what he wants to actually do"

It ultimately took the group eight Earth months to get to the planet and through no influence of anyone Naoto had decided that Zoe was right and that it was for the best that he get the remaining power that Zoe had so that he could truly have Zoe's abilities instead of having only part of her abilities and them not being truly his even if he'd come into his own with Zoe's powers

"Kerenai, is it decided who shall receive what's left of your powers?"

"Yes, Jiban, the person I gave my powers to originally shall take what's left of my abilities into himself so that he shall truly have my powers instead of what some consider only a mockery of them"

And so the group does the ceremony to transfer what was left of Zoe's powers to Jiban and after both of them recover from the ceremony they head home. Once they got home and the paperwork declaring Zoe alive was taken care of Yoko would remain a police officer for the next fifteen years while Naoto and Zoe would remain a police officer and police dispatcher respectfully for another thirty years, and somehow EDC enemies never attacked Zoe so that it was never revealed that she no longer had powers, and when they both passed away due to a bombing in their apartment they were buried next to Yoko who had died from pneumonia a few years earlier, but all three of their graves had the Cybertronian symbol of peace on them along with the EDC symbol to mark their association with them