The man stood with his arms crossed and his dark green eyes watching her. He looked to be the age of 27. He had dark, black hair that was cut shortly to the tips of his ears. His hair was spiked up with light unnatural blond tips which frosted it.

"Wh-who are you?" she said fearfully not liking the sense she was getting from him.

The man smirked.

"The name's Aven," he said as he approached her. His eyes darkened as he looked at her.

"I lead my squad, brother squad."

She looked fearfully at Boss with her eyes asking him to help her. Boss came to her side. Aven just smirked at him.

"She is definitely strong in the force," he said. Boss glared at Aven. "And who will be watching her while we are on our next mission…. General," he growled. He knew Aven well. They never got off on the right foot. He never liked the general. He was known for his countless victories, but he did anything to win. He wasn't a Jedi, but he did have a lightsaber. He knew how to use the force, but he was never trained.

"Well who do you think old friend?" he asked giving Claire a wicked grin. Claire shied away from his glance. Boss watched him for a moment.

"With all due respect… General" he spat out. "Claire is my adopted daughter. She is my responsibility."

Aven laughed.

"Oh how cute… You think she's yours just because you adopted her?" He spat back looking at Claire who was hiding behind Scorch fearfully. Scorch placed a hand on her shoulder as if to try to reassure her.

"Someone's gotta watch the little brat while you're gone," sneered Aven. Boss growled back angrily.

"That girl is not a brat! Do you hear me?!" Now Boss was pissed off. No one insulted Claire especially with her in the room.

"Stand down soldier," Aven snarled, "or I will have to demote you! The kid will be placed under my care until you and your men finish your next mission."

Boss stood their angrily.

"That's an order!"

"Sir...yes….sir!" he snarled.

"Be at the dock at oh… 700 which is in ten minutes." Aven then turned and left. Claire looked up at Scorch in fear. Claire looked at the Deltas who then looked at her.

"I don't like him."

"I know," said Boss.

Boss walked over to her with Fixer behind him and Sev and Scorch beside her.

"Claire, if he touches a hair on you head…" Boss snarled, "I'll be the one to end that man's miserable life." Boss Grabbed her hand and placed something in it. Claire looked down at it then looked up at him.

"W-what is this?" she asked confused.

"It's a com. If you don't feel safe or something goes wrong, press this button ok? We will try to get back as soon as we can." Claire wrapped her arms around Boss's neck.

"Thank you," She said as she hugged him.

"Sir… it's time to go drop Claire off," spoke Sev emotionlessly, but she could sense that he was pissed off.

Boss nodded before standing up. The men had her walk in the middle as they walked to the docks. Aven waited with his arms crossed, and Five strange clone commandos waited behind him. They then stepped forward while glaring at the Deltas. She could feel the tension as she was given to Aven. Boss then approached Aven as she walked on the ship with these strangers. The clone commandos set her down so that she was sitting on one of seats. She looked up as the clone commandos stood there watching her for a moment. Claire looked at her hand with the com that Boss gave her before he had to leave. One of the clone commandos in particular just stared at her. She looked at him before quickly looking down shyly.

"So….. you must be Claire," stated one of the men. Claire nodded without speaking. The one that spoke to her had yellow armour. She then looked at him.

"What are your names?" she asked. The men looked at each other. There were two of them with red armour on, but one of the two had black along with the red on his armour. Another one had green armour on, and the last one had black armour on. The one in black and red armour stepped forward.

"I'm Dagger, and that's Savage," he said pointing to the one in only red armour.

"Poizen," he said pointing to the one in green armour.

"Chex," he said pointing to the one in black armour.

"And Elic," he said finally pointing to the one in yellow armour. Claire looked at all of them for a moment then she looked at the door as Aven entered the ship.

"Poizen, let's go!" He shouted his eyes darkening as he spotted Claire. Claire shied away from his gaze. Elic was sitting beside her. For some reason, he was the only one she felt comfortable around. Elic seemed a bit nicer than the others. The ship rocked and groaned as she felt it go up and take off.

Claire looked over as she watched the doors begin to close. She watched as the Delta squad got onto a different ship and hoped that they'd be ok as much as Boss hoped that she'd be ok. Claire looked over at Elic. Elic flashed her a smirk as his brothers sent him a death glare. Dagger then walked over to them once the ship entered space. Aven was at the front of the deck with Poizen piloting the spacecraft. Dagger then sat down next to Claire. Feeling a bit awkward, she shyly tried to scoot away from him. "Dagger, leave the kid alone," Savage said annoyed.

"Just think. The kid suddenly appears in a ship cell nearly beaten to death. How do we know she's not a Sep?" said Dagger as he got closer. Claire whimpered before moving even further away from him.

"Dagger!" Chex said irritated. Dagger growled while glaring at her before getting up and walking over to Chex. His eyes never left Claire. Elic sighed as he watched him.

"Sorry 'bout that," Elic said as he looked at Claire.

"Dagger's a little off."

"I'm not off, transfer!" Dagger snarled.

Savage placed a hand on Dagger's shoulder. There was a loud rumbling as the ship entered the atmosphere while shaking a little from the impact.

"Ten minutes boys!" shouted Aven. Claire looked over to where Poizen had set the coordinates and let his general take over. They looked at each other before looking back to Claire. She then averted her gaze to the ground. There was a loud groan as the ship shook once again before landing.

Sorry about the long wait. I decided to wait until after school to start up the story again. During the summer there may be more updates, but I'm not sure. I'm very lazy right now. I barely made it through this chapter. :p My dog kept groaning at me and telling me I was too loud while I was studying, and there was a huge thing with dinosaurs. I also got lazy again, and I can't get off the couch. If you really like this story, then I'm very happy. I don't have to worry though since no one ever reads the author's note. If you somehow did, please put bunnies in your next review. I really love bunnies. If you do, I might update sooner. Also coming soon... the best character... even he's not in the book yet... I'm not going to tell you his name, but I'll give a hint... it's spelled... M... I... X. You'll never figure it out. Read the next chapter when it's up to figure it out. Everyone will love him. Even if you don't, I will, and that will be enough. He is my favorite character, and he's not even in the story yet. That's how awesome he is. I'm finally done. BUNNIES!