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Ride 2: Dreams of Flight

"So that's the story." Yusei said when they'd returned to his hide-out. Gally had met Yusei and his friends, the portly Taka, the serious looking man named Nerve and the plucky man named Blitz. Then there was the boy with frizzy red hair and blue patchy dress named Rally who'd arrived late. The group immediately was fascinated by her cyborg body, but at the same time did their best to be hospitable.

Yusei had told her about the creation of Satellite and the ensuing prejudice against the now second class citizens by the City.

"So you're making this machine to escape to the City?" Gally said, her mind thinking of Yugo as she looked to Yusei.

"No. Not to escape. Satellite is my home. I just want to get back what belongs to me. I need that D-Wheel to go there." Yusei said. His eyes showed her that he was serious, and just as determined to do it as Yugo had been.

"Yusei's dream was summoning his Stardust Dragon." Blitz said. "But our former friend Jack stole it AND Yusei's old D-Wheel to escape and become the King of Duelists in the City."

"It might be a one-way trip." Gally said, and Rally gasped.

"No! Yusei will be fine. He just has to duel Jack and then-"Rally stopped, covering his mouth. Gally looked to the boy and smiled. He too, reminded her of someone back home.

"And what about you, robot girl?" The man called Blitz asked, no doubt wanting to change the subject.

"Cyborg." Gally corrected, sitting back in a reclining chair. "As for me, I was found in a place a lot like this. A Cyborg surgeon named Ido found my core and gave me a body and a name, as I had amnesia. Then a lot of stuff happened. I eventually remembered I was a warrior in my past life and got involved in a lot of fights. I thought I died after I killed my enemy, Nova. Yet here I am now."

Yusei crouched next to her, looking at her shoulder where her double had cleaved off her arm.

"I wish I had the technical know-how to fix this. If this was a physics problem I might be able to help, but repairing cyborgs isn't something that our society knows how to do. Maybe if you guided me, I could at least get you a working foot and ankle, but making an entire functioning arm seems a far way goal for people who live down here, even if we had some kind of manual for it."

Gally raised her hair and the group gasped when they saw her exposed eye socket, no doubt revealing more cybernetic parts.

"I'm what some call a total-replacement cyborg. My brain is the only part of me that's still human." Gally said. The group looked at her like she had two heads, save Yusei.

"Well now that you're here, do you need food? And rest? What can we do to help you?" Yusei asked her.

"You would help me? A stranger? From another world most likely?" Gally asked.

Yusei nodded. "In Satellite we're taught to look after each other. We're nothing if we don't have bonds. Not when the City tears us each down individually."

"Well yes, another foot would be nice, but you don't have to prioritize that. If your dream is going to that City, I have no right to get in the way of that dream." Gally said, gesturing with her hand, thoughts of Yugo still in her head.

"But I do need food to keep my brain working." She added quickly.

"Ok, well I'll see if we can't get you a foot of some kind soon." Yusei said.

"And we'll make sure you're eating." Taka said with a big smile, the large man nudging Blitz as the two laughed about something.

"And while they do that, I'll tell you all about it here!" Rally said, looking excited. "There's a lot to learn about Satellite, after all." The boy said as he produced a wrapped but old looking cereal bar for her to eat from his patchy blue dress.

"What about that mark?" Gally asked, pointing to the yellow sign on Rally's face.

Rally's smile immediately stopped as she felt the room's temperature drop. It was something bad.

"That's what's called a Marker. Security marks the people they catch stealing or committing crimes in the area." Yusei said. "Some offenses are minor, but some criminals can be thrown in prison depending on what they do. And what officer makes the call."

"Sounds like a nice bunch of law enforcers to me." Gally said sarcastically.

"Which is why we want to keep you here for now." Yusei said. "At least until you can pass as a human. If the City sees you with that many cyborg parts in plain sight, you'll become some kind of experiment in the City in the best scenario."

Gally nodded and looked around. "Thanks, everyone. I'll do my share when the time comes."

"You don't have to feel like you owe us anything, Gally. I'm sure you're here for a reason." Rally said.

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"Intriguing." Desty Nova said as he examined the sight of the explosion. "The bomb robot was designed for detonation, not genetic teleportation!" After all – there was no trace of Gally left, not even any debris.

The doctor frowned, the face on his chest struggling to maintain the expression as it hurt – a face wasn't supposed to be affixed to a chest like that, anyways.

Still his instruments weren't wrong. Some kind of dimensional portal had opened. Which was curious. What had caused it? What kind of karma had Gally moved now? Her own? His? Or someone else's? Nova couldn't say and the possibilities fascinated him.

"Gally, if your karma has created a way to another dimension, than this is a new discovery waiting to be viewed through the lens of Karmatron Dynamics!" Nova yelled, sending a signal to the next 'him' that would wake up in a few hours.

Nova realized that the body he was in at the moment wouldn't last very long – the decapitation hadn't killed him, but the loss of blood certainly would. Cloning himself was a slow process, and the clone would unfortunately have no memories of his latest encounter with Gally, - not until he booted up this model's memory chip into his own brain chip - but it didn't matter. He would know what had happened. And he would know how to follow her.