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Lucas followed Claus as they exited the Chimera Lab. Lucas couldn't believe that he actually died and came back to life just like his brother did. Although he isn't happy that he has to serve the Pigmask army he couldn't exactly hate his brother for what he did. After all if the roles were switched he would have done anything for his brother to come back.

Lucas continued to follow Claus until they came across the Commander talking to Tracy who nodded her head at whatever the Commander was telling her. He watched as Tracy walked away before Claus approached the Commander.

"Excuse me sir."

The Commander looked at Claus. "What is it General?"

"Well I was wondering if I could stop by our house so I can grab our night clothes and a pair of socks. Also I left my sword back there and I need it."

The Commander scoffed. "Sure, if you can get there by yourself."

"No problem, I'll just teleport back there."

"You can use PSI teleport?"

Claus nodded his head. "Yeah and you can too?"

The Commander rolled his eyes. "Of course I can. Now go."

"Thank you sir."

Claus turned around and started walking down the stairs and toward the exit.

Lucas looked at the Commander nervously. He would never admit it but he was terrified of the Commander. He's seen first hand just how powerful this Commander is. It makes sense since he was killed by the Commander so of course he would be afraid of him.

"So um, is there somewhere I can eat? I'm kind of hungry."

"Yes, head down the stairs and take a right. Walk down the hallway and take the 3rd left that you see. After that head straight and take the 2nd right and you'll arrive at the cafeteria."

"Thank you sir." Lucas said as he started heading down the stairs.

The Commander watched him leave before walking up the stair and toward his room.

Claus just arrived at Twoson and the first thing he did was walk over to where he fought the Commander. He sighed in relief when he saw his sword lying on the ground where he left it. He picked it up and attached it to his belt. He looked around the town as he took in the destruction that the Commander had caused. There were holes in houses and on the road. Cars and trucks were flipped over and laying on their sides. He closed his eyes and looked away when he saw that there were people inside the vehicles and were clearly dead from the force of the impact. He wasn't heartless so of course he felt bad for the people that died.

"Do you see that? How could you join someone so horrible?"

Claus turned around and saw Paula standing behind him with a sad expression on her face. He turned around so his back was facing her. "I told you already it was for Lucas. You don't have any siblings so of course you wouldn't understand. Listen do not interfere with the army's business. As of right now the army has no quarrel with you and if you do interfere then that will just make things worse for you."

"I'm not going to sit by here and let that guy get away with what he's done. This is my hometown and I don't appreciate him destroying it."

Claus sighed. "Then I guess that we're enemies now. If that's the case then the next time we meet I'll have to stop you if I'm ordered to. The Commander is not someone you'll want to mess with. He defeated Lucas and I in less then 2 minutes and we're the strongest of all of you. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get our night clothes." Claus said as he walked away.

Entering his and Lucas's house Claus went toward their Bedroom. Walking inside he went up to his dresser and opened it taking out a few pairs of pajamas and socks. He then went over to Lucas's dresser and pulled out a few pairs of pajamas as well as a few pairs of socks. Reaching underneath Lucas's bed he pulled out a suitcase and placed the pajamas and socks inside. With that done he left the house and teleported back toward the base.

Walking inside the base he went up the stairs and toward his and Lucas's room. Upon opening the door he saw Lucas sitting on the edge of the bed staring at the wall. He watched as Lucas turned to face him and smiled at him.

Claus walked over to the dresser and opened up the suitcase before placing their pajamas and socks inside keeping a pair of pajamas out for him and Lucas. Closing the dresser he walked over to the bed and gave Lucas his pajamas. He watched as Lucas started taking his shoes and socks off before removing his clothes and putting his pajamas on. Claus removed his own shoes, socks and clothes before putting his pajamas on.

Lucas crawled up the bed and lay his head down on the pillow and stared at his left hand.

Claus felt the guilt swell up inside him and he frowned. Crawling up to Lucas he grabbed his left hand with his right hand.

Lucas looked at Claus with a sad expression on his face. "I can't feel that."

"I know. These arms have no nerve functions so we can't feel anything."

"Claus, am I ageless like you?"

Claus nodded his head. "Yes all chimera's are made to be like that. We'll be together forever until we are killed off."

Lucas smiled. "I like the sound of that."

Claus sighed. "You're really strong Lucas. I mean you survived 3 years without me with no problem. I could never have done that."

"You're wrong."

"Huh?"

"I said you're wrong. I was in constant pain and filled with grief. Nobody cared and dad spent so much time looking for you that he didn't spend any time with me. One day I couldn't take it anymore so I tried to-" Lucas bit his lip unable to say what he wanted to say. "Let's just say that I owe Fuel my life."

Claus tried to think of what Lucas was talking about. After a minute of thinking realization dawned upon him and his eyes widened in horror. "You tried to kill yourself."

Lucas didn't say anything, but simply nodded his head.

No amount of words could describe the guilt that Claus was feeling right now. He couldn't believe that his brother tried to kill himself and it was all his fault. All he wanted to do was avenge his mother's death, but in reality all he did was tear their family apart. Even to this day he always wished that he could take back what he did and that was the reason why he was bitter. He hated himself so much that he had lashed out on other people making people think that he hated them.

"How did Fuel save you?"

"Well it happened like this." Lucas said as he started to explain what had happened that day.

An 11 year old Lucas opened his eyes and crawled out of bed. Looking around he noticed that his father wasn't around and he sighed sadly. Getting dressed he walked over to the mirror and stared at his own reflection. All he saw was a person who looked dead staring back at him. He frowned and opened up the dresser drawer and picked up the piece of his mother's dress up and stared at it. He then looked down and saw Claus's shoes and he felt the tears falling from his eyes.

It was then that Lucas noticed something else in the drawer. Reaching inside he pulled out the Drago fang knife that was made for his father. He stared at it when an idea suddenly came to him. The thought of slicing his own throat appealed to him as he placed the sharp edge of the fang to his throat feeling the sharpness poke at his skin. Taking the knife from his throat he cut his left hand watching as the cut started bleeding. He smiled as he cut his arm watching as it started to bleed too. He then placed the knife back against his throat. He was about to slice when he heard the front door open and his eyes widened.

Fuel walked in with a smile on his face. "Hey Lucas I was wondering if-" he stopped when he saw Lucas with a knife against his throat and his eyes widened. "What are you doing!?" he shouted before running up to Lucas and tackled him to the ground. However when he did Lucas had swiped the knife upwards cutting his cheek. He winced before he started wrestling with Lucas trying to get the knife away.

"Get off of me!" Lucas screamed as he tried to prevent Fuel from taking his ticket to freedom away. He wanted to die so badly and here Fuel was trying to take that away from him.

"Darn it Lucas, give me the knife!"

"No! Don't you get it? Nobody cares! It's always Lucas the crybaby, Lucas you need to move on, Lucas everyone dies it's a part of life. Everyone acts like my mother dying is no big deal. It's not fair! Not only did I lose my mother, but I also lost my brother too! My father spends all day everyday looking for him. I matter too! And no one seems to realize that! So why bother living?"

After a bit of struggling Fuel finally managed to snatch the knife away from Lucas. He got off of Lucas and took a few steps back. "Listen Lucas, everyone does care some show it differently then others. I care my dad cares so does Nana, Richie, Nichol and the others. Killing yourself would only bring pain to others. You need to live Lucas, live for your mother and brother."

Lucas started to think this over before realizing that Fuel was right. He couldn't believe that he tried to kill himself. He looked at his arm and hand and saw that they were still bleeding. "I guess I should do something about this and your cheek as well."

Fuel touched his cheek and pulled his hand away and saw blood on his hand. "Yeah, let's just say that we cut ourselves on sharp metal when our dad's ask."

Lucas nodded his head. "Yeah and Fuel? Thanks for everything."

"Sure no problem Lucas."

"That's everything that happened." Lucas said as he explained it to Claus.

"So did dad believe your story?"

Lucas frowned. "No, he knew it was the Drago fang knife that did it. Said the cut was to deep to be a sharp metal. Also the shape of the cut gave it away. As far as he was concerned I was just messing around with it. If I did tell him it was because of depression he would have sent me to that hospital for the old and insane and I didn't want that."

"I see. Well I'll have to thank Fuel when he gets his memory back. Listen Lucas, I'm going to help the Commander get his memory back."

"How? We don't know a thing about this guys past life. So how exactly do you plan on doing it?"

"Simple, get to know him. Hopefully I'll trigger something."

"Well okay Claus. I'm tired so I'm going to sleep."

"Alright I guess I'll go to sleep too."

With that said both Lucas and Claus fell asleep.

Lucas and Claus were woken up by the sound of their door slamming open. They both looked up and saw that the Commander was standing there with an annoyed expression on his face.

"It's 8:30 you lazy asses. Wake up time is 8:00."

Claus groaned. "Well you could have told us that. How were we supposed to know?"

"Does it look like I fucking care? Get up before I force you up. Also take a shower one of you two smells really bad and it's clogging up my nose. Seriously it smells like something crawled up your ass and died. I have an enhanced sense of smell and I can smell it all the way from the 3rd floor." the Commander said before storming away.

Claus rolled his eyes. "What an asshole." he mumbled.

"Damn right I am!" the Commander shouted back.

"Shit he heard me."

Lucas hopped off his bed and walked over to the dresser and opened it up pulling out a pair of socks. "I'll take my shower first."

Claus watched as Lucas headed to the Bathroom before sighing. "I should have gone first."

About 10 minutes later Lucas came out of the Bathroom wearing the Pigmask uniform with the lab coat on as well. "How do I look?"

Claus shrugged. "Like a mad scientist."

Lucas rolled his eyes. "Really a mad scientist?"

"I'm just joking."

"Just take your shower. I'm going to get something to eat and then head straight to the Chimera Lab." Lucas said as he was putting on his shoes. He then walked out of the room.

Claus sighed as he went inside the Bathroom to take his shower. After getting dressed he walked out of the room and down the stairs heading to the cafeteria. As he was walking he passed by Lucas who simply nodded his head at him. Upon arriving at the cafeteria he saw the Commander sitting down and he walked over to the table and sat down.

"Morning sir."

"Hmph."

Claus sighed realizing that trying to get friendly with the Commander was not going to be easy if not impossible. He didn't understand why this guy was programmed to be a stuck up snob.

Soon the chef appeared and handed Claus a plate of pancakes. Thanking him he began eating. When he was finished eating he leaned back in the chair.

"You're coming with me today to assist in crowd control."

Claus raised an eyebrow. "Crowd control?"

"Yes, one of the seals is located under water in Tazmily Village and the people won't be happy that I'll be there. So you will prevent them from getting in the way got it?"

Claus nodded his head. "Yes sir."

"Good follow me we have work to do."