Chapter 4:
Dr. Mordin walked quickly through the hallway looking for Serenity. He went up to the captain quarters and used his omnitool setting to unlock it.
"Ah Serenity, found you finally. Have update- well two updates actually. One for you and one for how Noctis is doing." Mordin said to her.
Serenity was in the midst of undressing and into a regular jump suit until she found the right modified suit for her. Serenity blinked looking at him and not moving.
"Do you mind?" She asked.
"Oh yes sorry. Forget humans like privacy on such matters. Will turn around and speak." He said turning around as she just shook her head smiling.
"You never cease to amaze me." She said.
"Wanted to talk to you about your recent blood sample. I have questions regarding your new found abilities that you learned." Mordin said to her.
"You mean the Sharingan or one of the other powers I learned?" She asked him.
"Careful when having that much abilities. Your psychic power can indeed contain the flow of each abilities strain, however, it will not last long as someone who has those specific powers." He told her.
"I understand. I only know little of using them and why I only use one at a time." She told him.
"However it doesn't mean you can at least try to combine your abilities together, but be careful when doing so. It can stress your bodies energy. The overload of power will also kill you." He said simply.
Serenity listening while fixing the jumpsuit patted his shoulder that he was okay to look then.
"I understand that master Bindo taught me sage mode. I can absorb the nature around me to gather more energy." She told him.
"Yet you must be careful." Mordin said to her concern. "Over confidence is anyone's weakness." He said.
Serenity indeed took his words to heart and sighed realizing she wasn't all that powerful. She knows she had not much training and only seen what she could do instead of really practicing. She didn't have that much time due to the war coming but made effort too whenever she could get the chance.
"I haven't really trained all that much. I have but not in a way I think I'm skilled or not. I think I am at least." Serenity admitted sitting down on her couch.
Mordin sat beside her. "Think you won't make it?" Mordin asked.
"I hope I make it through this. But I hope I don't slow anyone else down or get someone killed if I wasn't strong enough to stop an attack." Serenity said beginning to worry.
"Do not worry. Friends and family be there for you. Everyone together as a family in the war. But won't lie, people die in war but their death strengthens our resolve." Mordin told her making her feel less worried.
Suddenly he jumped. "Ah almost forgot, Noctis condition." Mordin said to her.
"How is he and what happened to him?" Serenity asked.
Mordin beckoned her. "Come I will bring you to him instead. Speak for himself would be better." Mordin said.
Both of them got to the med bay where Ryuken was sitting there with suction hookups to Noctis' head and waving a med-gel over him.
"Serenity." Noctis said to her surprised to see her.
"Noctis, glad to see your alive." She said and nodded to Gladiolus who was in the room who nodded back.
Ryuken kept doing tests moving back and forth. Maes was also present helping him typing on the console nearby to check brain patterns with the scanner data received.
"So what happened?" Serenity asked him. Behind her, Tomoko came in to check on things.
Tomoko stood beside Gladiolus to listen in, as she did she looked at him literally down and up and tried to innocently move beside him closer, making him grin knowing what she was doing.
"As far as I remember, everything went black when I was out in a market gathering some supplies, the next I wake up in a prison cell guarded by Star Cerberus soldiers. At least back then I called them men in white yellow and black but at least now we got a name for them. Some woman asked me questions while torturing me. They had some electric device on the ceiling of the cell I was in to shock me." Noctis said to them.
"What was her name?" Gladiolus asked him.
"Elsa Granhiert. I remember one of the soldiers calling her by her name in front of me. Then she killed that soldier." Noctis said.
"Sounds like a woman who needs to get laid." Tomoko laughed and suddenly had a more awkward laugh glancing up at Gladiolus.
"Anyways..." Noctis said shifting his attention away from Tomoko back to Serenity. "They asked me questions about you guys, then suddenly something about a Candle and then something about invading Earth. Once they did I was being sent to Earth and the guards accidentally dropped the card that unlocks our electro chains. One of the prisoners grabbed it and used it on the main chain which unlocked us and I bolted away and kept running till the sun went down." Noctis told them.
Noctis then tried to remember more.
"Then I met a resistance team and I told them who I was and I was trying to find you guys. Luckily they talked about an Alliance forming after a week since I been with them and the name Serenity was mentioned. So I had quite a journey to steal a Star Cerberus starfighter and bolt away. I even gave the Alliance some information when I got here but I haven't eaten and my head keeps having these spasms." Noctis said frustrated feeling another jolt in his mind.
"What information if it isn't too much trouble to ask." Serenity said concern over his pain.
"While I was captured I heard soldiers talk about Rome. They found the location to the Cosmic Divine Crystalline at Rome. That was vital information the Alliance needed. But the problem is I wasn't transported there, so I do not know what their defenses look like." Noctis told them.
Mordin and Ryuken looked at Serenity.
"His brain waves are starting to worsen. We need to figure out whats wrong with him. That's all the time you guys get with him, he needs to rest while we run more tests." Ryuken said to them.
"I understand." Serenity said and took Noctis hand patting it. "Thank you." She said.
"Take it, easy buddy." Gladiolus said and literally put a hand on Tomoko's head. And patting it making her turn red.
"I'll pat her head for ya since I can't do it to your head yet." Gladiolus said laughing and walking off.
Tomoko kept standing there for a few seconds before Mordin had to push her out. "Stand out here and contemplate." He told her and shut the med bay door.
Mira approached Serenity beckoning her to follow to which she did.
The two made it to the female restroom and Mira handed Serenity a crate shoving it inside the bathroom.
"Put that on and come out. I want to see how it looks for you." Mira said as another woman approached wearing a hood over her head only covering the top part of her face while the bottom of her face was seen with a smile on her face.
"Who is that?" Serenity asked.
"Kasumi, I helped with the outfit. Call it a favor for a friend, which is the one beside me." Kasumi said referring to Mira.
Leslie walked in with two Drache guards and Crimson Kingdom personnel.
"Uh! I helped with the design too now." She chuckled.
Mira and Kasumi just smirked and looked at Serenity. "Go on give it a try." Kasumi said.
Serenity did indeed and she looked at herself in the mirror after she got done and checked herself out and then walked out seeing it was only Mira, Leslie and Kasumi without Leslie's guards.
"You look great." Kasumi said checking the look of it.
Serenity's new outfit was a very thin plating of battle armor over her petite body. The platings resemble an N7 outfit, however, it looked more metal and nearly based on medieval knights design, but with a future design and much more thinner. She also sported a medium length red cape that was ripped up on the bottom. It also had a red cloth wrapped around her waist and both sides dangling long but also ripped at the bottoms. That was to give it a cooler look to it. She didn't have a personal shield mechanism attached too it as it would weigh her down and much of the armor was very thin, however, the metal was quite durable and could withstand a few point-blank missiles. It had an attachment for her lightsabers on the side behind the red cloth as well as clippings for her two blaster pistols for behind, but that was it. The outfit itself was white with the red cloth belt but the suit under armor as seen was mint green, matching her hair color. It was flexible as well with tough cloth even with a cooling system and heating system to work with the body temperature during a battle if the enemy uses a fire power or an ice power.
Serenity looked at herself again and suddenly knocked on her own chest piece.
Mienshao walked by looking at it and blinked a few times. "Hey, that looks epic." She said.
Mira looked back with a smirk. "We made you girls duplicates of the same outfit, but not hers. You girls' however will nearly look like hers."
"How come we don't look as good as her?" Mienshao chuckled seemingly not butthurt over it.
"Cost of it." Leslie explained.
"Wait how much is what I'm wearing?" Serenity asked blinking.
"Don't worry about it." Kasumi said patting her and smirking.
"You should get prepared, the battle will be happening soon." Leslie told her and all three women walked off and guided Mienshao to where the copied outfits for the other sisters were at and to bring them to the girls before the battle begins.
Later that night, Serenity was in her room again laying in her bed looking at the ceiling looking at the stars. She thought about what was coming and started to fear it. She suddenly felt a pounding in her head and suddenly dozed off only to appear again in this dream world like place. Near her was Adam who again was startled and sighed seeing Serenity.
"I am starting to hate this." He told her crossing his arms.
"Why is this happening?" Serenity said and pondered over it.
Suddenly both of them had the same vision and this time it showed a young Adam with his parents and other Faunus running from human raiders shooting down their species and screaming how Earth belonged to humans and not Faunus humans.
Then the vision shifted to Adam running with his family and suddenly was knocked over by two Faunus trying to get away. Adam's mother went to grab him only for her to be shot right through her face out the back of her head by one of the Human raiders who laughed.
Adams father had to drag a crying Adam away before that same Human chased after them shooting toward them. Then Adams father saw a nearby canal and yelled at Adam to flow with the river and get to some bank that Adam knew about and possibly being there one time with his father either fishing or what not.
Adam got into it letting the fast water in the canal take him off and his last moment was seeing that human rapidly firing into Adams father with his gun then the vision faded away.
The vision suddenly shifted showing that human raider hunting another Faunus, which was actually a very young Mangle. This vision then showed a bit into the future of a small Mangle running from the same Human Raider and his team as they were trying to shoot her down but she kept running fast away from their blaster bolts.
Then the human Raider got her in a corner with his team loading their blasters and suddenly behind them, was the girls' father, Drayconivous. The vision showed that Serenity's father killed the raiders including the one who killed Adam's family.
The vision ended and Adam stood there not even moving and just staring at Serenity.
Both of them was silent looking at one another until Serenity took a step forward.
"Faunus look just like us, except they have animal traits like ears or tails, or well horns like yours that go perfect moved back along your hair." Serenity said to give a compliment to him.
Adam just remained silent making a fist.
"It was wrong what they did, but not all humans are like that. Mangle is considered a Faunus due to her ears and tail. I understand Faunus was mistreated on Earth being called human rejects. But Humans and your species share the same planet." Serenity told him.
"You look human." Adam growled showing he was upset possibly over that vision being known to Serenity of his past.
"I am humanoid, I'm not fully human. My mom- wow..." Serenity said thinking on it, something she doesn't usually think about.
Serenity sat down and thought over it.
"Something in the records of the Illusive Man, it says your mom was some creature, a Gardevoir. Then suddenly after mating with your father, she became human. I do not understand how that works with that species but I guess its something they can do to match with their mate or whatever." Adam said and then seen how Serenity was thinking on it still and he approached her sitting beside her.
Serenity kept thinking and looked at Adam when he sat down beside her making her wonder why he did that.
"I never really think of my mom, well I do but not like this. All my life I never met her, and I don't know anything much about her other than well, she made me. And I know of what you said but that's actually it. Dad never talked about her but at the same time, I never really asked him. I guess growing up I guess I thought he was my mom as well." Serenity said smiling a bit thinking of the old memories, the good memories, the forgotten memories.
"My mother wanted to see humans and Faunus get along and instead be united on Earth. Dad thought the humans should be exterminated." Adam told her.
"But what is it you want? You hate humans I understand that, but not all humans are like that. I know you let that human family live on Telos, I know that you have this soft spot deep inside. I do not understand though what you want. Is it revenge? If so you have to let it go or it will eat you alive. When dad died, I wanted to kill Candle. When I fought her, I started to see that our lost sisters were pawns to the Illusive Man. That they were brainwashed. And I see he is trying to brainwash you. After all, he ordered one of our lost sisters to blast at our position when we fought Candle. Who doesn't say he will order a bombardment on us while you are there with us, fighting us." Serenity told him.
Adam pondered her words and turned his head.
"I must follow orders so that my species can be free. He will make the human race evolve and not treat my species like garbage." Adam told her.
"Yeah, I bet he also promises seventy-two virgins." Serenity said sarcastically.
Adam looked at her as she looked at him.
"Why do you wear that mask." She asked him.
"Because, I do not want too-" Adam started until Serenity reached up and suddenly she was able to actually touch and feel it and he felt her fingers push it.
Adam's hand grabbed Serenity's wrist but it wasn't rough but soft and pushed her hand away before she could see.
"You don't have to be the bad guy. There is always another way." Serenity told him.
"I only know one way. And I will not try to trust another human again after-" Adam said but stopped himself.
Serenity's hand still being held as he looked at it and let it go.
"Sorry." He said.
Serenity at the moment blushed a bit and moved her hand back and suddenly noticed how Adam looked away.
"I wished this dream crap would end." Adam said.
"Are you getting tense around me?" Serenity asked him.
"Do not be absurd! You are my enemy and I am not tense at all!" Adam said to her quickly.
Serenity cocked an eyebrow at him. "Then why are you sweating." She asked.
"Why are you blushing." Adam remarked back to her making Serenity speechless.
"See?" Adam said with a grin.
"Your such a nerf herder." Serenity said to him glaring at him.
"I thought I was the enemy?" Adam remarked leaning to her.
"An evil man who wants revenge on his own race to kill the entire human race." Serenity said leaning at him.
"Maybe I'll start with killing you." He said getting closer.
"Then I'll just have to beat you to it and beat your fucking brains out." Serenity replied seeing him inch closer to her and suddenly she began to fan her hand at him to slap him.
Suddenly the dream ended and Serenity was back in her room, her eyes open. And right ontop of her was Mangle who was nose to nose on Serenity with a grin on her face.
"Kissy face?" Mangle asked.
Serenity grabbed Mangle's tail and spun her around once in the air and threw her into the wall nearby.
"Agh!" Mangle shouted splat against the wall and fell onto the couch.
"Get out!" Serenity shouted.
"Was you having a wet dream? Your lips were ready to pout and well I wanted to see if you'd kiss me. I had to take that opportunity to black mail you and call you a sister kisser." Mangle said.
"Fuck you- why the fuck is you even in here!?" Serenity asked confused.
"Well Prompto and his friends are at the med-bay talking to Noctis and well I didn't want to sleep alone so I came in here and snuggled with you. You know, give me give me give me love. You know?" Mangle said to her.
Serenity just looked at her silently and went back into bed covering herself and was too tired to care.
Mangle looked at her and sighed laying on the couch.
"I'll sleep right here okay?" Mangle said.
"I don't care." Serenity mumbled.
"I'm in here too on the floor, if that's okay..." Tomoko said yawning and Serenity didn't even question it.
All three girls slept there all night.